ASF Asia: Outbreaks in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia, North Korea, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea, East Timor, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea
African Swine Fever (ASF) is sweeping through the Asian continent. Pig Progress is tracking its progress on its way through Asia.

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Cambodia News, (Takeo Province): According to Tan Phannara, 50 pigs imported illegally from Thailand into Sang Meanchey district were
seized last week. It was discovered that the animals were carrying the African Swine Flu virus, so, on the morning of June 3, 2021, the pig carcasses were destroyed by burning.

The local director said that in the first 5 months of 2021, professional police officers seized 31 cases of illegally imported pigs and this is the first time they have discovered the presence of the contagious pig virus known as African Swine Flu.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal and Plant Health Agency
Advice Services - International Disease Monitoring

Updated Outbreak Assessment #23
African swine fever (ASF) in South East Asia
17 January 2022 Ref: VITT/1200 ASF Asia Disease report
Since our last report on 14 December 2021, ASF has been reported in domestic pigs inThailand for the first time. There have been further reports of ASF in domestic pigs in China and Malaysia, ASF in wild boar continues to be reported in Hong Kong and the
Malaysian peninsula.

Map of OIE reports of ASF in South East Asia


Our last report on 14 December 2021 provided a full situation assessment on ASF in Asia.
The purpose of this report is to provide an update on the epidemiologically significant
change noted in Thailand, and report on the situation in other affected countries in Asia
that have reported ASF since the last assessment.

Since our last report on 14 December 2021, there have been no further outbreaks of ASFreported in Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea,Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, South Korea or Vietnam according toOIE, though it is likely that the virus is still circulating in these areas. In April 2021, mediareported that ASF was detected in illegally transported pigs that were intercepted at twoCambodian border checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey and Takeo Provinces, (FAO 2022),
suggesting that ASF is still present. More recently, smallholders have raised concerns in the media over the smuggling of meat and live pigs over water (Cambodianess 2022).

Full pdf report can be read here; includes updated information on Thailand, China, Hong Kong and Malaysia :
file:///C:/Users/story/AppData/Local/Temp/asf-asia-update-23.pdf

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:37 am Dengue fever, power cuts, no water after midnight, Brexit embarrassment. Now African Swine Fever???

I can't take much more...

you forgot the shrimps with jelly and the pizza with pineapples...

truffledog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 4:41 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:37 am Dengue fever, power cuts, no water after midnight, Brexit embarrassment. Now African Swine Fever???

I can't take much more...

you forgot the shrimps with jelly and the pizza with pineapples...

I said that on Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:37 am.

I have had a few bigger problems since then, namely Covid! Anyway, I'm a shameless fan of pizza with pineapple.

New Swine Influenza A Strains in Cambodian Pigs Could Heighten Global Pandemic Risks
By IANS 2 hours ago
TWC India
Scientists have identified several previously unknown strains of swine flu viruses that have quietly circulated in Cambodian pig populations for the past 15 years, potentially posing a pandemic risk.

The new strains include viruses transmitted from humans to pigs and others with genetic origins from as far as North America, according to researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.

Pigs play a crucial role in the emergence and potential spread of influenza viruses between animals and humans because they provide an ideal environment for the exchange of gene segments among avian, swine, and human hosts, ultimately leading to the creation of new viruses.

With pork production significantly increasing over the past 50 years, international trade and movement have further heightened the risks.

"Swine influenza viruses typically cause mild symptoms in pigs, but they pose a pandemic threat to humans since the human population may lack immunity or have inadequate protection against new strains of swine influenza viruses. Therefore, systematic surveillance is crucial for early detection and warning of new subtypes or strains," said Prof. Gavin Smith, Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS.

From March 2020 to July 2022, the team conducted swine influenza surveillance in 18 pig slaughterhouses in Cambodia, collecting 4,089 nasal swabs from pigs in different districts of four provinces. Among these, 72 pigs, or around 2 per cent, tested positive for influenza A virus.

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, revealed that scientists identified nine distinct swine influenza A virus groups, at least seven of which had not been detected for between 2 to 15 years.

Among these were multiple H3 lineages that had been transmitted from humans to pigs, circulating unnoticed for about a decade, as well as the H1N1 subtype, which was predominant and likely originated from human sources dating back to the 2009 pandemic.

Two seasonal viruses were detected in pigs from Kandal, Phnom Penh, and Takeo provinces, likely originating from Thailand.
Full article: https://weather.com/en-IN/india/health/ ... emic-risks