The Hong Kong government reports that a pig with a licensed pig farm has a sample of the pig farm to check the African swine fever virus.Essence

The Hong Kong Government issued a newsletter on Saturday (December 23) to report the above news.

According to the bulletin, the Fisheries and Fisheries Natural Nursing Department (Fisheries Agency) announced on Saturday that the pigs of African swine fever virus were detected in a pig farm.

A spokesman for the Fisheries Protection Department said that the Fisheries Department personnel inspected the Yuanlangliu Fushan with a brand of pigs on Friday (22nd), and took the samples from 60 pigs for testing.The sample of the head pig responds to the African swine fever virus.According to the African swine fever response plan, the fishing and protection department has immediately prohibited any pig farm from the pig farm until it will notify it separately.For the sake of caution, the Fisheries and Guards Department is arranging to sell all about 2,800 pigs in the destroyer.The destruction operation will begin next week.

The spokesman said that the Fisheries and Protection Department has also arranged personnel to inspect two pig farms within three kilometers of the pig farm and sample the pigs for the African swine fever virus test.For the sake of prudential, the Fisheries Agency has temporarily prohibited these pig farms from transporting pigs out of the notice.As for other pig farms three kilometers, the Fisheries and Protection Department has not received reports that only have abnormal conditions.

The spokesman emphasized that African swine fever is not common in infectious diseases, and will not be transmitted to humans. Therefore, it will not constitute food safety risks. After cooking, you can eat with confidence. Citizens need not worry.

In November, the sample of pigs holding a pig farm in Yuellang Fushan test the African swine fever virus. From November 6th to 7th, a pig farm found that 22 pigs were infected with African swine fever virus.The fishing and care department arranged for all 5,600 pigs in the destroyed pig farm.The Yuhuai Department went to a local pig farm to inspect a local pig farm from November 23rd to 24th. It was found that at least five pigs only measured that the African swine fever virus was positive, and all 1,900 pigs were arranged to destroy the pig farm on the 25th.