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China brings blue-ear pig disease under "preliminary control" |
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20:45, August 20, 2007 |
Blue-ear pig disease has been brought under "preliminary control" through vaccinations and mass culls of infected pigs, Jia Youling, China''s chief veterinary officer, said on Monday.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), as of August 19, the disease had infected 257,000 pigs in 26 Chinese provinces, of which 68,000 died and 175,000 were destroyed.
The highly pathogenic disease, also known as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, can be fatal for pigs, but the vaccinated pigs will no longer be infected by the disease, according to Jia.
He said 12 enterprises had been assigned to produce an effective vaccine against the disease with a daily production capacity of seven to ten million milliliters.
"China has so far administered 2.96 million milliliters of vaccines to protect more than 100 million pigs from the disease and no blue-ear diseases have been found in places that have completed the vaccination process," said Jia.
"People are no longer scared of the disease because they know what the disease is and how to deal with it," Jia claimed.
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