Mark Schipp, the President of World Organization for Animal Health briefs media in Sydney, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, on the threat of African swine fever. Schipp says that the spread of the disease in the past year to countries including China, which has half the world's pig population, had inflamed a worldwide crisis.
The disease’s spread in the past year to countries including China, which has half the world’s pigs, had inflamed a worldwide crisis, Schipp told reporters at a briefing in Sydney. The price of pork has nearly doubled from a year ago in China, which produces and consumes two-thirds of the world’s pork. And China’s efforts to buy pork abroad, as well as smaller outbreaks in other countries, are pushing up global prices.
African swine fever is spread by contact among pigs, through contaminated fodder and by ticks. It originated in South Africa and appeared in Europe in in the 1960s. A recent reappearance in western Europe came from wild pigs transferred into Belgian forests for hunting purposes.
The policy moves that 🇦🇺 Australia should make now to mitigate the ASF threat, explained in this recording: should also be followed by other nations. 'Better late than never'. OIEAnimalHealth MarkSchipp ScottMorrisonMP senbmckenzie Auspol
It was clear to us from 21/8/2013 the world would experience a huge increase in ➖ virus/dis-ease events. Polio Ebola BirdFlu MERS Zika+ YFV Dengue Flu 🐗 ASF 🐖 China 🇨🇳 3/8/2018 ⚠️ GlobalViralStorm🦠 WHO ECDC_Outbreaks CDCgov OIEAnimalHealth MarkSchipp
In March 2015, at the start of 🇺🇸's BirdFlu outbreak, we walked into the OIEAnimalHealth's office in Paris and warned certain execs they needed to boost their budget for global vigilance, monitoring, oversight and counselling by a factor of 20. 🐗 ASF 🐖 MarkSchipp Auspol
MarkSchipp's briefing in Sydney 🇦🇺 15 hrs ago re. AfricanSwineFever confirms to me that most animal health 'authorities' continue to not take the threat seriously enough. ⚠️ 🐗 ASF 🐖 OIEAnimalHealth hirokiiijima Auspol
As usual, the Worst of everything seems 2 Come fr Africa.
I guess McRibs are for a VERY limited time
It isn’t very healthy to eat pork so don’t feelbad.
What’s also cool is how the Trump administration now let’s US pork industry inspect itself. We m sure they’ll be vigilant keeping production clean.
libertythePD Does that include the ones in the Whitehouse ?
Can it be passed to humans? By eating pork
Dies it have to be African? Why not call it Washington Swine Fever or Denmark Swine Fever....or just H1 Swine Fever?
DiploWriter Won’t happen over night so it’s a global long term non issue
And this is what is bringing the Chinese to the trade table.
Get your McRibs while you can!
There goes the Republican Party.
Pseudo
Is this why Cuomo had to hire 500 for the subways?
Talk about a nightmare scenario
drmistercody could this be the key to our salvation from a swine hell future?
There you have it. And I'm quite sure that a zombie apocalypse is right around the corner. Just after a global flu pandemic. We're all pretty much screwed.
Aside, but important: I detest the name AfricanSwineFever. It's inaccurate (did it originate in ALL of Africa at once, ffs?) and derogatory. Nobody refers to h1n1 as, 'North American Flu', or the Plague as 'Asian Black Death'. Do better.
Yeah when....
Isn't he one of the guys from those Air Head commercials?
Wait till it crosses with H5N1 and the new virus is fully pathogenic. 70-80% kill rate.
Including the Trumps and Kushner? Mulvaney, too?
So buy mass quantities of bacon now?
Just say no to pork
STOP BREEDING AND EATING BILLIONS OF ANIMALS! ITS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH, BAD FOR THE ANIMALS AND BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!!! 🤬🤬🤬
Or is it mass killing in order to decrease over supply due to China US tariffs
Pseudo science
Fuck. Bacon’s gonna get expensive.
So this really may be the end of the GOP
Nooooooooo!
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