How do people prevent African swine fever? How to prevent African swine fever and live pig transport vehicles have contact?

To prevent African classical swine fever, live pig transport vehicles are not listed and may become a black hole, so what should we do? Let's get to know it. How is it better to defend?

China's African classical swine fever epidemic is opaque, and Taiwan's epidemic prevention is all tense. In the face of the successive discovery of Chinese ham sausages in Riverside Park in Taipei and a school in Nantou in the past few days, the Council of Agriculture asked experts and scholars on the 8th to discuss the follow-up prevention of African classical swine fever. Many experts have begun to worry at the meeting. is there any way to track and monitor the outbreak of African swine fever in Taiwan? Among them, live pig transport vehicles have become the target of public criticism.

As the Council of Agriculture does not have a list of live pig transport vehicles, nor does it have an exact grasp of the number of vehicles and transport status, experts have called on transport vehicles to be equipped with GPS equipment as soon as possible to facilitate epidemic monitoring. In response, Huang Jincheng, vice chairman of the Council of Agriculture, instructed on the spot that the second reserve fund supported by the Executive Yuan would be used in the future to take this opportunity to establish the basic data of the transportation system.

Epidemic monitoring experts call on transport vehicles to be equipped with GPS

The Council of Agriculture asked experts and scholars on the 8th to discuss the follow-up prevention of classical swine fever in Africa, including Chen Zhifeng, professor of the Department of Animal Science of Chung Hsing University, Zhou Jincheng, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine of National Taiwan University, Zhang Zhaoqin, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine of Chung Hing University, and Chen Shizhu, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine of Pingtung University of Science and Technology. The government should face up to the problem of no gatekeeper for live pig transporters.

Chen Zhifeng said: judging from the current epidemic situation in China, the epidemic prevention of African classical swine fever will be a long-term problem. If it is really unfortunate to enter Taiwan today, will the Council of Agriculture now have the ability to track vehicle transportation for five to 15 days?. Should the transport vehicle be equipped with GPS equipment? Is there an epidemiology teacher who can immediately participate in the relevant investigation?

Zhou Jincheng also stressed that in the past, he has visited foreign transport vehicles and the management mode of chemical vehicles is very clear. "this is actually a basic skill," including the number of pigs raised in the country, the number of households, the number of breeding breeds, the number of quarantine dogs, and the number of inspectors of future pig farms that need to be established in order to do long-term work, otherwise as soon as the virus comes in, it will soon be gone.

In the future, the Council of Agriculture will use the second reserve fund supported by the Executive Yuan to establish the basic data of the transportation system. (photo taken from Animal and Plant Disease Prevention and Quarantine Bureau-epidemic Prevention Little Top soldiers Facebook fans)

The transport vehicle is not listed and the competent authority is unknown.

Peng Mingxing, head of the Animal epidemic Prevention Section of the Bureau of Prevention and Quarantine, said that at present, chemical transport vehicles specially used to transport dead pigs and chickens are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, and there are also mandatory GPS installations. when the bird flu outbreak broke out in 104, local epidemic prevention authorities used GPS tracks and poultry farms to conduct visits, but he did not know exactly how many live pig transport vehicles and how high the proportion was.

Wang Zhongshu, deputy director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Council of Agriculture, said frankly that at present, there is no catalogue of live pig transport vehicles, coupled with the scale of transport vehicles, such as large and small, and connected vehicles, although the Ministry of Communications is responsible for issuing vehicle licenses, it is a supervision unit. but who is the management unit of live pig transport vehicles? At present, there is no express provision in the law, so it is impossible to accurately control the number of vehicles and transportation conditions, and the GPS system recommended by experts can be taken into consideration.

Jincheng said that the Council of Agriculture is currently working with the Executive Yuan to apply for the support of the second reserve fund, and the basic data construction of live pig transport vehicles and the GPS installation will require them to take advantage of this opportunity to make up as soon as possible, otherwise if an epidemic breaks out in the future, the problem pigs will not know where to go. It will be troublesome in epidemic prevention.