- Jeff - Supposedly this is a mystery disease, therefore,
if there is no diagnosis of a specific disease how would China know that
the vaccine being given is the correct vaccine for the disease?
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- It sounds to me as though China is taking drastic measures
to hold onto its foreign market. China has not been forthcoming
in dealing with matters of public health. We are still feeling the fallout
from the pet food poisoning scandal. Make no mistake, the toxic chemical
combination in pet foods goes far beyond pet food and, in my opinion, has
penetrated well into human foods.
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- If a food supplier is not going to be honest and forthcoming
responding to food safety issues and health matters which include emerging
infectious diseases, how can we continue to buy food and food ingredients
from China? Our enemy feeds us? Amazing.
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- China Orders Shots After Pig Deaths
- 5-9-7
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- (AFP) -- China ordered pork farmers Tuesday to carry
out mass vaccinations after a mysterious outbreak killed hundreds of pigs
in the nation's south.
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- The agriculture ministry said it had urged stepped-up
vaccinations for swine fever, pig rash and swine pneumonia and called on
animal medical factories to increase production of medicines.
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- The directive was issued after up to 300 pigs in Guangdong
province died over the last 10 days from a mystery disease that saw the
pigs stop eating, develop fevers and begin haemorrhaging, the New Express
paper reported.
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- Local farm bureaus were not immediately available for
comment.
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- Yang Weixin, head of the township where the outbreak
happened, told the paper there were up to 10,000 head of swine raised there
and denied reports that up to 80 percent of the area's pigs had died.
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- "According to preliminary findings from local government
and provincial experts a large-scale epidemic or an epidemic that can spread
from animals to people has been ruled out," Yang said. "At present
the disease has been controlled."
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- The epidemic has largely hit pigs being raised by individual
farmers while industrial pig farms in the region, where health and sanitation
conditions are better, have so far not reported any unusual outbreaks,
the paper said.
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- The disease has caused a panic in the local areas as
residents stopped buying pork for fear of eating tainted meat, it said.
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- Officials said there was no chance that tainted meat
or sick pigs could find their way to markets in Hong Kong, which borders
Guangdong. Transport of live pigs from the affected area has been banned.
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- http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp
-news.html?id=070508062129.f5tawvf9&cat=science
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
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