EU allows vaccination against swine fever

Lead: the European Commission said Thursday it will allow emergency vaccination from November 1 to eliminate swine fever, hoping to avoid mass slaughter of livestock in affected areas Although the new rules still require that all pigs in the affected farms be slaughtered, they allow vaccination in emergency situations, including oral vaccination of wild pigs "In order to avoid large-scale slaughter of livestock in epidemic areas, emergency vaccination measures can be determined based on the assessment conclusions and control conditions To that end, the Commission is buying a batch of traditional vaccines, "the Commission said in a report Classical swine fever is a very infectious viral disease, the mortality of young pigs is very high, but the disease is harmless to human body The spread of classical swine fever can be through direct contact, especially with pigs and wild boars, or indirectly - through soil, clothing and meat, for example If a country has swine fever, it will face export restrictions, and the pork industry will suffer serious damage In the past, in order to eliminate the epidemic situation, large-scale slaughter (destruction) was generally used The report also prohibits the use of restaurant and kitchen waste as livestock feed, although some member states have been granted temporary exceptions to this provision, as long as they meet some detailed standards In early October, European Union veterinary experts agreed to extend the ban on the export of live pigs and pig pay products for six months to April next year due to the outbreak of swine fever, covering the border areas of Germany, France and Luxembourg.