Japan is facing an emerging outbreak of swine fever. It does
not seem to be a breaking
news. Also, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga’s declaration is somehow obvious
“In order to prevent the disease from spreading further, the government will do its
utmost by having the agriculture ministry and relevant local authorities
cooperate for speedy and thorough implementation of quarantine measures”. What
do you expect a Chief Cabinet Secretary could
state? Everything’s ok, isn’t it? Almost … Japanese farmers are
calling for vaccination of livestock, but Japan's agriculture ministry has
announced that “for the time being, they
will contain the outbreak through early detection, culling harmed animals and
disinfection”. Yasuhiro
Ozato, a senior vice farm minister, said, "We will seek to
resolve this by sticking to hygiene control standards”. In
fact, vaccinating pigs would prevent Japan from regaining its World
Organization for Animal Health status as a CSF free country, preventing Japan's
plan to develop pork exports.
To be sure, pigs are pigs and humans are humans, yet it is not at all a reassuring news.
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