Confirmation of CSF (porcine cholera) infection in Okinawa City following Uruma City, Okinawa Prefecture, January 10, 15:12
On April 10, pigs at the pig farm in Okinawa City were newly infected, following the infection of pigs at the pig farm in Uruma City, Okinawa Prefecture, with the infectious disease CSF, a so-called swine cholera. .
A new case of CSF infection was confirmed on August 8 in a pig farm in Okinawa, about 1.5 km away from a pig farm in Uruma, Okinawa, where the infected pigs were found.
When the prefecture tested 12 pig farms within a 3 km radius of the pig farm in Uruma City, it was found that pigs in the pig farm in Okinawa City were infected.
The prefecture will dispose of more than 2,800 animals raised in this pig farm, and will also take measures to prevent pigs from disinfecting piggeries.
On the other hand, the killing of more than 1,800 animals following the confirmed infection in Uruma City is expected to end within 10 days.
Okinawa Prefecture has said that there is concern about harmful reputation, saying "it will not infect humans, and even if infected meat is eaten, it will not affect the human body."