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Note that African Swine Fever is not harmful to humans.

African swine fever spreads to VN-Cambodia border
Khorn Savi | Publication date 18 March 2019 | 08:01 ICT
African swine fever has spread to parts of Vietnam that border Cambodia’s Ratanakkiri and Kratie provinces, a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries official said on Friday.

Tan Phannara, the General Directorate of Animal Health and Production director-general, told a Phnom Penh workshop that he had received informal information from animal feed companies and animal raising associations that outbreaks of African swine fever in Vietnam were getting closer to Cambodia.

He called on Ratanakkiri and Kratie department officials to remain alert in monitoring for outbreaks.

“I have received information that [Vietnamese] provinces that border Ratanakkiri and Kratie are reporting cases of African swine fever, and so I urge all officials to be vigilant,” he said.

In February, Vietnam became the third Asian country after China and Mongolia to report outbreaks of African swine fever.

The disease has hit Vietnam’s $10 billion pork industry and is seriously threatening future pig exports, Vietnamese online newspaper VN Express said on Friday.

Seventeen Vietnamese provinces have reported outbreaks, with Taiwan, Dubai, the US and the UK banning pork imports from Vietnam, with violators facing heavy fines and even imprisonment.

African swine fever does not harm humans but is deadly to pigs and there is no vaccine or cure. China slaughtered almost 700 million pigs in 2017 due to an outbreak of the virus.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... dia-border

Pig Smuggling Clampdown

Tbong Khmum, Cambodia News: Customs police are on high alert for pig smuggling from Vietnam, due to outbreaks of African Swine Fever in the neighboring country. On March 30, 2019, in Krak commune, Tbong Khmum, customs officers stopped four motorbikes and two cars which were delivering 39 pigs illegally from Vietnam. Four people were arrested.

It's about time pig breeders started to change the type of pigs they raise, instead of every pig being a long white with the same DNA they should be going back to some of the older breeds or at least cross breeding with them to breed pigs that have some builtin resistance to viruses that love it when every pig is an identical twin of the others.

Never mind African swine flu, Cambodia should be on alert for the massive influx of South African refugees...they're bloody everywhere, and working as English teachers! There is going to be a whole generation of Cambodians speaking English with Saffer accents if Cambodia doesn't clampdown on this plague!

lekker bru!

i met a african english teacher in udonthani at a bar
he told me his nurse gf was pegnant so left her at home & came out with his uni student gf instead
ironically i could barely understand his english

markd wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:17 pm i met a african english teacher in udonthani at a bar
he told me his nurse gf was pegnant so left her at home & came out with his uni student gf instead
ironically i could barely understand his english

I suppose he was still one of the best teachers at his school.

Dengue fever, power cuts, no water after midnight, Brexit embarrassment. Now African Swine Fever???

I can't take much more...

Swine fever detected in R’kiri
05 April 2019 | 08:07 ICT
African swine fever has been detected for the first time in Cambodia with an outbreak in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district. Some 400 pigs have been killed, said a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries statement.

The General Directorate of Animal Health and Production director-general Tan Phannara told The Post on Thursday that the outbreak of African swine fever in Ratanakkiri is not a result of pigs being legally imported from Vietnam, as the province is not authorised to import pigs from neighbouring countries.

However, his initial conclusion is that it is likely that Vietnamese people who transport vegetables and meat over the border may have transmitted the disease to Cambodian pigs
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... cted-rkiri

Official announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture on the outbreak of dead pigs in Ratanakkiri province, believed to be due to African Swine Fever carried across the border from Vietnam.

I was told by a Kratie guest house owner that they have taken pork off the menu for the time-being, due to news of infected pigs. However, the decision seemed to be based on local rumours rather than anything concrete. It seems that there is a lot of Vietnamese pork being sold (illegally or unofficially) in the local markets, and how to tell the difference between Vietnamese and Cambodian pork ? I always assumed that pork in the provinces would be locally sourced, but it seems not.

Also, the OP says that the swine fever is not harmful to humans, but does that mean that the meat can still be eaten, or that the disease is not contagious to humans ? Anyone know ?