Pig cholera vaccination environment improvement urgent thought Agriculture minister September 24 12:36

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Eto shortens the period of widespread solicitation based on the personal idea of ​​the procedure for enabling pigs to be vaccinated prophylactically to prevent the spread of swine contagious diseases and swine cholera infection He expressed his desire to create an environment where he could get a vaccine as soon as possible.

Since the infectious disease of swine, swine cholera, does not stop the infection, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries decided the policy to allow vaccination of swine cholera prophylactically last week and started procedures such as amendment of the prevention guidelines.

Regarding this, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Eto said, “It was extremely short in the past,” considering that it was a personal idea about the period of public comment that would normally be held for more than 30 days as part of the procedure at a press conference after the cabinet meeting. There is also an example of a period.One year has passed since the occurrence, and I feel that discussions have already been made between prefectures and experts, so it should be as short as one month if possible. ” He indicated that he wanted to create an environment where he could get the vaccine as soon as possible.

On top of that, “500,000 of the vaccines stocked in the country are in the renewal period, but since it is heard from the manufacturer that the effect and safety can be secured for two months, it is realistic to use these preferentially "Isn't it?", Indicating that there is a high possibility of preferential use of vaccines that are about to expire.