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

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• 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...

RECENTLY EMERGED SWINE FLU IS CAPABLE OF BECOMING PANDEMIC, CHINESE HEALTH EXPERTS CLAIM

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• A new influenza strain was found in pigs by Chinese researchers.
• The studies revealed that the current virus is mix of three strains – N...

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: NEW VIRUS IN CHINA HAS TRAITS OF 1918 PANDEMIC FLU

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• Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House coronavirus advisor, stated that the new virus by pigs in China carries the traits of the 2009 H1N1 virus and 1918 pandemic flu.
• The scientist are calling the newly discovered virus as G4 EA H1N1.
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NEW SWINE FLU WITH PANDEMIC POTENTIAL: CHINA

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• Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu which is capable of triggering a pandemic.
• The swine flu is named G4 and it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain which was responsible for the 2009 pandemic.
• G...

AFRICAN SWINE FLU SCREENING MEASURES APPROVED BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT

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• Strict measures are being taken to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever
• The disease has no vaccine and is highly contagious

Ahead of the Tokyo edition of Olympic games, Japan has tightened its security measures relat...

PREVENTIVE MEASURES TAKEN TO CONTAIN SWINE FLU

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• Okinawa prefecture confirmed presence of swine flu in January
• Agriculture Ministry intends to levy heavy fines on pork smugglers as a way to contain the virus spread

Piggeries in the Okinawa Prefecture had confirmed the p...

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER SUSPECTED IN JAPAN

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• 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 ...

JAPAN TO PASS BILL TO CULL ASF INFECTED PIGS TILL 3 KMS

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• A new bill to be presented in Diet by the agricultural ministry
• Culling area to be expanded to 3 kilometers
• Preventive measure against African Swine Flu

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Okinawa prefecture confirms outbreak of swine flu

Japan’s agriculture ministry confirmed the outbreak of classical swine flu (CSF) in the Okinawa prefecture. This is the first occurrence of CSF in the prefecture in 33 years. The last outbreak of CSF in Okinawa took place in autumn of 1986. The previous occurrence of CSF in the country was ...

Swine fever in the U.K.

The United Kingdom has been seeing a major rise in the diseases in humans, and this has also been coming true for the animals that reside in the United Kingdom. From the horses suffering from liver diseases to now pigs suffering the African swine fever, the nation has been able to achieve it all ...