China ordered pork farmers on May 8 to carry out mass vaccinations after a mysterious outbreak killed hundreds of pigs in the nation's south.
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.
The directive was issued after up to 300 pigs in Guangdong Province died over the previous 10 days from a mystery disease that saw the pigs stop eating, develop fevers and begin hemorrhaging, the New Express paper reported.
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Yang Weixin, head of the township where the outbreak happened, told the New Express 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.
"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."
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.
The disease has caused a panic in the local areas as residents stopped buying pork for fear of eating tainted meat, it said.
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.
(AFP)
中國南方爆發不明豬瘟導致數百頭豬死亡後，有關當局五月八日下令豬農展開大規模施打疫苗的工作。
中國農業部表示，已經要求豬農加強施打豬高熱症、豬紅斑及豬肺炎等疫苗，並呼籲各動物藥廠提高疫苗產量。
據《新快報》報導，官方下達這項命令，是因為廣東省爆發不明豬瘟，豬隻陸續出現厭食、發高燒和出血等症狀，十天以來死亡豬隻多達三百頭。
爆發豬瘟的市鎮鎮長楊衛新向《新快報》表示，當地飼養的豬隻多達一萬頭，因此該區八成豬隻死亡的說法並非事實。
楊衛新說：「當地政府與省農牧專家會勘的初步結果，已排除大規模疫情或人畜共通疫病的可能。目前疫情已經獲得控制。」
《新快報》表示，受豬瘟波及的多半是個人養豬戶所飼養的豬，該區大型養豬場因健康衛生條件較佳，暫時沒有疫情傳出。
《新快報》還說，疫情已造成當地恐慌，怕吃到病豬的居民紛紛停止購買豬肉。
官員表示，病死豬肉或病豬不會流入鄰近的香港，疫區內的活體豬也禁止運往外地。（法新社／翻譯：林倩如）
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