Swine fever vaccination started in the Chubu region
The Japanese government is promoting to export agriculture, forestry and fishery products including pork meat such as black pigs and other brand pigs. However spread of swine fever, fatal infectious disease of livestock, is looming pig farmer’s business and mind for a year. An outbreak has been continuing in the Chubu region since September 2018 when the first case was reported in Gifu and it crossed over the region in last September into the Kanto region where Tokyo is located. On October 25, vaccination to pigs at pig farms in the Chubu region has started to prevent the spread of swine fever. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has decided to start vaccination to pigs to prevent the further spread of swine fever. One year after the first outbreak in September last year, the government has determined that there was no choice but vaccinate pigs because the spread of infection has been out of control. Until then, the Japanese government has ...