[사회]African swine fever is also emergency…”Predictive and preemptive change of response”

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It is pigs who first started a fierce fight against the virus before we had a virus war against Corona 19.

With the spread of African swine fever with a mortality rate of 100%, there were many difficulties for our pig farms.

As the disease has spread rapidly from south to south via wild boars, the government has announced a preemptive response.

Reporter Lee Seung-hoon’s report.

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The African swine fever, which terrorized domestic pig farms in the fall and winter of 2019, has not disappeared, but is still ongoing.

However, the damage to the civilian population has been reduced, so our attention has only been reduced.

The situation is serious when looking at the wild boar outbreak.

The spread of 336 cases in Hwacheon and other border areas such as Paju and Yeoncheon is remarkable.

In addition, the disease extended the front line to Gapyeong and Chuncheon, far beyond the quarantine fence and Soyang Lake last year.

In addition, I am worried that the spread will be steeper ahead of winter when hungry wild boars come down to farmhouses.

Countermeasures against swine fever are very similar to countermeasures against coronavirus.

By blocking any signs of spread in advance, we will somehow stop the infected boar from riding the Baekdu-daegan and running around the country.

First, we focus on finding dead bodies by mobilizing manpower from the government and military to the existing areas.

The core countermeasure area is a wide-area fence to block the movement of wild boars, and the area concerned about spread is designated as a precautionary area and managed in three stages.Especially, a special capturing group is put in the first precautionary area to spread the disease to the south. I decided to stop it.

[최선두 / 환경부 야생동물질병관리팀장 : 비발생지역에 대해 사전체제를 구축함으로써 겨울철 확산에 효과적으로 대처할 수 있을 것으로 기대하고 있습니다.]

Of course, there are also skeptical views that this massive wild boar sweeping operation cannot be a fundamental countermeasure, so it seems early to argue that the countermeasure is’good or bad’.

But what is clear is that the year is starting with a fight against humans, animals, or a difficult virus.

This is YTN Lee Seung-hoon.

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