On the morning of April 7, the Ha Tinh Sub-Department of Crop Production and Livestock Production informed that currently, in Ha Tinh, African swine fever occurred in 9 communes (until after 21 days), causing more than 1,000 pigs to become sick and die, forcing them to be destroyed.
The cause of the epidemic outbreak is African swine fever virus retention, widespread in the environment, with mutations between genotypes (genotype I, II and hybrid (I+II)), causing rapid death in infected pigs.
The epidemic mainly occurs in small-scale livestock households and farms that do not ensure biosafety and disease safety conditions.
Officials in charge of veterinary medicine do not have appropriate professional qualifications, so they face many difficulties in inspecting, supervising and advising on solutions in disease prevention and control in the locality.
Some communes and wards have not really paid attention to and drastically and synchronously directed epidemic prevention and control solutions.
Regarding epidemic prevention and control, from the beginning of 2026 to now, the Ha Tinh Sub-Department of Crop Production and Livestock has issued and advised on the issuance of many directing documents.
Currently, hot weather reduces the resistance of livestock, viruses exist in the environment, and pig restocking activities increase, so there is a risk of diseases arising and spreading in the near future," the Ha Tinh Sub-Department of Crop Production and Animal Husbandry recommends.
Faced with the complicated developments of the epidemic, epidemic prevention and control is being highly focused. Farmers must strictly implement sanitation and disinfection measures with lime powder and chemicals in the barn area and surrounding areas.
Livestock households and farms with livestock forced to be destroyed due to epidemics must fully implement disinfection, hygiene, and sterilization to destroy pathogens and prevent spreading and spreading epidemics.
Localities organize working groups to inspect and urge disease prevention and control work. Direct functional forces and commune police to strictly handle cases of violations in buying, selling, transporting, and throwing away animal carcasses that spread diseases.
Accelerate the progress of vaccination for disease prevention in the first phase of 2026 for livestock; ensure that at least 80% of livestock are fully and correctly vaccinated at the time of vaccination, completing before May 30, 2026.
