JAPAN LOST ITS STATUS OF BEING THE COUNTRY FREE FROM CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER: OIE

Highlights –

• Japan lost its status of being the country free from classical swine fever: OIE.
• The World Organization for Animal Health or OIE suspended the status.
• The OIE gave the country the status in the year 2015.
• Japa...

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER SUSPECTED IN JAPAN

Highlights:

• Classical swine fever already confirmed, ASF being suspected in piggeries
• All piggeries within 3 km radius of the affected site will have to cull their livestock
• No vaccine available for SAF

Okinawa prefecture ...