According to Mr. Dinh Huy Bach, deputy director of Ha Nam Provincial Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Subdepartment: African swine fever in the province is not currently emerging with new outbreaks, but the risk of epidemic recurrence is very high, especially in epidemic areas. The source of the African swine fever virus is still circulating in the environment and there is a risk that the outbreak could recur at any time under favorable conditions. Therefore, Ha Nam province has urged communities to strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures, especially epidemic surveillance at the grassroots level. This allows early detection and timely treatment of new outbreaks so as not to spread widely.

“For people, to prevent and control African swine fever, it is necessary to focus on cleaning the barns, active disinfection and disinfection, and ensuring processes to increase biosecurity, which are effective solutions to prevent disease in pigs and combat, including African swine fever. At the same time, in case of abnormally sick or dead pigs, they must immediately notify veterinary officials and local authorities for handling, and not throw dead pigs into the environment to pollute and spread the disease.

Mr. Do The Trong, head of Agriculture and Rural Development Department of Binh Luc (Ha Nam) District, said the district has implemented many solutions to prevent and control African swine fever. It is recommended that farmers pay attention to cleaning the barn, actively disinfecting and disinfecting, ensure processes to increase biosecurity …

For small and medium-sized livestock farms, it is necessary to prevent third parties from entering the breeding area. When exporting and selling pigs, farms generally do not allow traders and pig transport vehicles to enter their breeding areas. Because street vendors buy pigs from stall to stall and thus also the means of transport of the dealers, which are exposed to a high risk of becoming infected with pathogens. If traders and vehicles are allowed to enter the breeding area when selling pigs, the remaining pigs in the pen are vulnerable to disease transmission from traders.

In addition, it is very important to raise awareness and responsibility directly in households for the prevention and control of African swine fever. Mr. Pham Hong Minh, owner of a livestock farm in Dong Tam Village, Dong Du Township (Binh Luc District), said pigs are farm animals with a long lead time, so the value of the pig herd is up to billions of dong The biosecurity activities on the farm are always put at the top to minimize the risks in animal husbandry.

The farm requires that the workers do not go out unless it is really necessary, but live right on the farm. When workers return, they must wash, disinfect, disinfect and stay in the isolation room for the prescribed time to avoid transmitting diseases from other places. Workers entering and exiting the stable area must wear protective clothing and be disinfected.

At the same time, pig farm managers also minimize access to the stall to prevent the epidemic well, and mainly monitor them through the camera system. The transport of feed, the transport of the breeders to the farm and the finished pigs is organized at a transshipment point, the vehicles of suppliers or partners stop here, but are not allowed to enter the farm.

In addition, the camp will spray disinfectant on the camp site twice a week and sprinkle lime powder on the entire road leading to the camp and the area adjacent to the camp.

“Thanks to ensuring livestock biosecurity and proactive disease prevention, our farm has not had an outbreak since the beginning of the year. Thanks to this, it helps us weather the price storm. But the price of animal feed is so high, but if we suffer an outbreak, we will suffer a heavy loss,” Mr Minh said.