America is shielded from north to south against the expansion of the ASF
An outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in Haiti notified by the OIE last Sunday, September 19, reignites the alarms about the spread of the disease in the American continent. The data provided by the Haitian government indicate that the outbreak has been detected in a pig farm with some 2,500 animals in Anse-à-Pitre, in the southeast of the country and close to the border with the Dominican Republic, where ASF outbreaks also occurred in July. In this case, the virus has affected 234 animals and has led to the sacrifice of 750 as a measure to stop the spread of the disease.
This ASF outbreak has prompted other American countries to implement measures to prevent the spread of African swine fever. In Brazil, the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA) has launched an extensive multilingual campaign (in Portuguese, English, French, Creole and Spanish) on social networks, which will also send to companies that produce and supply the production chain and other organizations related to the pig sector.
Health defense intensifies
In addition, ABPA's Special Group for the Prevention of African Swine Fever (GEPESA) has joined forces to strengthen with the Brazilian Federal Government to intensify sanitary defense, which includes the intensification of inspections in the main ports of entry of the country, preventing the entry of meat products. The Brazilian authorities have also established more restrictive legislation on the entry into the country of pork products and have signed an international emergency agreement for the prevention of ASF
Sulivan Alves, technical director of ABPA, pointed out that all of Latin America had been put in a state of alarm through the group #TodosContraLaPPA, with which an exchange of information and efforts of 21 associations from 18 countries of the Latin American continent has been established, in a great continental campaign.
Prohibition and surveillance in the United States
The United States announced through its Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it was banning pork and pork products from the Dominican Republic from entering the country, following the confirmation of an ASF outbreak through a cooperative surveillance program. From that moment on, the controls and inspections of the returns with Dominican origin have been intensified to control any risk of entry of the African swine fever virus into the North American country.
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