Cows, pigs, birds...an epidemic of livestock spread here and there

ASF Infection at Hwacheon Pig Farm...3,500 buried

Restrictions on movement have blocked shipments to nearby farms...a farmer's anxietyGrade 1 livestock epidemic Rumpiskin nationwide...Earlier than last year,

Check AI in wild birds...Migratory Bird Path Parameters

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From African swine fever to rumpiskin and avian influenza.

It's all a livestock epidemic that's spreading right now.

Most of them are in a serious stage, but farmers and quarantine authorities are on high alert.

Reporter Jihwan reports.

[Reporter]
It is a pig farm in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province.

The outskirts and entrances away from the city center were completely blocked.

The pig that was raised died and the sample was examined, and ASF and African swine fever infection were confirmed.

a buried storage tank that is carried in a large truck.

All 3,500 pigs that were raised are subject to burial.

The cause of the outbreak is still unknown.

A situation in which dead bodies of infected wild boars and flies or mosquitoes spread around the farm are suspected.

Farmhouses in a 10-kilometer radius set as quarantine standards were virtually blocked from being shipped until the end of next month.

[Farmers around pig farms: If you catch another 3 weeks (after handling the infected farm), it's 40 days. If you ask me to remove the pig after 40 days, it's the end of November. We have to ship it within that, but we're in trouble.]

In the case of African swine fever and ASF, Gangwon-do has been in a serious stage since 2019, that is, five years ago. But these days, this is not all. Across the country, rumpis skin in cattle and highly pathogenic AI in birds have occurred everywhere.

Rumpiskin, a first-class livestock infectious disease, is transmitted by vampire insects such as mosquitoes.

The mortality rate is not as high as 10%, but cows have anorexia and cows have reduced milk production.

This year, it happened two months earlier than last year.

The tide is also unusual.

Earlier, H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza was identified in wild bird feces in Mangyeonggang River, Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do.

In the case of AI, avian influenza, the particularly fluid migratory route is a quarantine variable.

[Ahn Jae-wan / Director of Animal Disease Division, Gangwon-do Provincial Government: African swine fever and highly pathogenic avian influenza are in a serious stage. Rumpiskin occurs and the connected cities and counties are currently in a severe stage and the rest are in a cautionary stage.

A livestock epidemic spreading here and there with chilly weather.

The quarantine authorities focused on prediction and disinfection, while asking any farm to report symptoms immediately.

I'm YTN Jihwan.

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: Hong Do-young
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