On August 3, the first African swine fever epidemic broke out in Shenyang, and the outbreak of African swine fever caused a lot of rumors on the Internet. So, will African pigs infect people? Let's take a look at the official answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Will African swine fever virus infect people?
African swine fever is not a zoonotic disease. "Pig" is the only natural host of African swine fever virus. Except for domestic pigs and wild boars, other animals will not be infected with this virus. It is a typical "pass pig not pass" virus. Even so, Xiao Bian still reminds everyone to eat pork must be fully cooked, full cooked to avoid other diseases.
What are the symptoms of African swine fever virus? How to prevent it?
African swine fever is a disease that is transmitted after the pig is bitten by a soft ticks with a virus. Typical symptoms after infection in pigs are flushing of the skin and extensive internal organ bleeding. African swine fever is an acute virus that is very ferocious and more terrifying than foot-and-mouth disease.
African swine fever is divided into virulent strains, poisonous strains and attenuated strains. In pigs infected with virulent strains, the clinical symptoms are obvious, and the mortality rate is 100%. If the infected strain is a poisoned strain or a weak strain, the pig is likely to be tolerated, or there may be almost no clinical symptoms, and only when the serum is detected Positive antibody reaction. And the infected pigs infected with virulent strains will develop within 24 hours, and the mortality rate is almost 100%. There is currently no vaccine to prevent, and no drugs can be treated. The only way is to cull.
Moreover, the virus of African swine fever is very tenacious and can survive in refrigerated pork for 100 days, fermented pork for 140 days, frozen pork for 1000 days, pig house for one month, pig feces for 11 days, and can survive at pH 4 to pH 13. Between the acid and alkali ranges, the commonly used disinfectant water does not necessarily eliminate the virus.
African swine fever virus is not very resistant to the environment, but it has different survival time in different media. For example, the virus in pig feces can survive for 3 days at 50 °C and 2 weeks at 20 °C in blood. The virus in the virus can only survive for 10 minutes at 60 °C. Use 1% of the caustic soda + 5% lime milk to spray the area contaminated by the virus, etc., and obtain a reliable disinfection effect in 3 hours.
About the African swine fever virus has spread this for everyone today, and recently the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is also holding a video conference to fully deploy the national African piglet prevention and control work, and everyone should not be easily panicked by online rumors! If the pig farmers find symptoms of the epidemic, they can report it in time!
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