Swine fever vaccination started in the Chubu region

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The Japanese government is promoting to export agriculture, forestry and fishery products including pork meat such as black pigs and other brand pigs.

Swine fever vaccination started in the Chubu region

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 not accepted preventive vaccination for swine fever, instead its policy has been based on applying strict sanitary measures and slaughter of infected pigs.

The government has changed dramatically its policy on swine fever and requested vaccine manufacturers to increase vaccine production.

According to the MAFF, eating pork meat vaccinated has no effect on the human health.

However, as long as there are many wild boars around the country that are believed to carry the virus,  eradication of virus will not be easy and period of vaccination will be long and expensive.

Countermeasures against groundless rumors about vaccinated pigs are another issue to protect pig farmers business for the future.  

Swine fever vaccination started in the Chubu region
Japan is expected to lose the status of free from infection in September next year as stipulated by international rules. This downgrade would cause countries with free status to regulate pork imports from Japan, and other infected countries may demand Japan to increase import of their products.

The government said it will negotiate with its main export destinations such as Hong Kong and Singapore to continue imports its products.



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