EBOLA VIRUS ON SWINE

[sanico]

Hi Doc, Good Evening. Ebola Virus on Swine is just flash on TV at 9PM but did not mention the farm location. DOH said that pork are still safe to eat provided it is cook well. What causes Ebola Virus?
How safe our swine and piggery farm from this desease?

Nick

[mikey]

are you certain they stated EBOLA??
in 2005 in China, ebola was transmitted from poultry to swine then to humans.

there was a reported outbreak of hog cholera back on Dec.2/08,maybe this  is it.


Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
The Economy
Hog cholera outbreak hits Leyte village

BURAUEN, LEYTE — Residents of a village here slaughtered in the last two weeks 20 pigs suspected of having hog cholera.

Provincial veterinarian Teofilo Mendoza said the affected community was Barangay Tambis, about five kilometers away from the town center.

"All the symptoms observed pointed to hog cholera. Some villagers were just worried that their animals might have the disease," he said.

Hogs stricken with the virus lose their appetite and suffer from severe body weakness, constipation or diarrhea, nasal discharge and display red spots on the skin.

Gerry Echon, a backyard hog raiser, said hog raisers slaughtered their animals as soon as they notice the symptoms.

Mr. Mendoza said they were monitoring six suspected hog cholera cases in the same village.

Last week, a team from the regional and provincial offices of the Department of Agriculture conducted a vaccination campaign in Bgy. Tambis and the nearby villages of Maabab, Malaihao, Cagangon. "Vaccinations were provided to about 100 pigs in four villages," said Mr. Mendoza.

Agriculture regional information officer Virginia Macanda said department officials discussed the situation with villagers last week. "Many people are not aware of what the disease is and how to manage such problems in their barangays. They’re supposed to bury infected animals instead of slaughtering and sharing the meat with the neighborhood," Ms. Macanda said. "Although hog cholera affects only pigs and has no detrimental effects on humans, it is still not ideal to eat the meat of infected animals."

Authorities advised swine raisers to check animals at least twice a week for unusual signs or behavior; make sure food waste is properly heated to destroy pathogens; isolate newly purchased hogs for at least 21 days; isolate sick pigs until the cause of illness is determined; fence property against wild pigs; and practice biosecurity measures like disinfecting clothing, equipment, and vehicles. — S. Q. Meniano

[nemo]

Hogs found positive for Ebola virus – DoH, DA

Hogs in at least three piggery farms in the country were found positive for Ebola virus, the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

Radio dzBB’s Tuesday Niu said both agencies have called for a joint press conference Wednesday evening to warn the public about the recent developments.

DA Sec. Arthur Yap, however, said most of the hogs that were tested by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) yielded negative results.

He added that out of the 28 pig tissues that the RITM have examined in different parts of the country from May to September this year, only six were confirmed positive forthe virus.

As of 6 p.m. Wednesday RITM said 94 percent of the blood samples of the hogs from the three piggeries were tested negative for Ebola.

Both agencies also reminded the public that pork meat should be properly cleaned and thoroughly cooked before they are eaten. - Aie Balagtas See, GMANews.TV
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lets just hope this is a ebola-like virus and not the real deal.  I remember around 1999-2002 where cases of ebola was reported in some primate farm in the philippines and in the end it was reassess as an ebola-like virus and not the ebola-reston strain which is feared by most...
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as an update the government say it is the ebola reston strain but of a different type... How different it was not specified.
A news in abs cbn say that a farm from neuva ecija, bulacan, pangasinan is positive and being quarantined.

[mikey]

lets hope like hell its not the real deal,this is from 2005 from China

CHINA ALERT: Mystery disease reportedly mutated Ebola virus; disease spreading fast
NOTE
This post is the first in what turned out to be a series of essays and a great deal of investigation on the mystery illness. After a month of research, I was unable to find one shred of evidence that the illness was connected to any form of Ebola. What I found was a great deal of speculation about anonymous/anecdotal reports -- and one of the key reports about Ebola, while reportedly from a Chinese doctor, described symptoms that actually ruled out Ebola.

While this does not mean that Ebola can be entirely ruled out, it does mean that with no medical evidence whatsoever to back up anecedotal reports about the mystery illness, the reader should be cautious about any claims regarding the nature of the mystery.
Pundita
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I'm interrupting my vacation to report on this critically important story. John Loftus* first reported more than a week ago to John Batchelor's radio audience that the 'mystery virus' that broke out China's Sichuan province "seemed to be split -- half Ebola, half AIDS."

Given the seriousness of the implications I decided to sit on the story until I'd gotten some additional confirmation, even though Recombinomics had passed along Boxun speculations about Ebola in China as early as July 19.

Last night Loftus gave another report to John Batchelor's audience in which he reiterated that his sources confirm that at least eight Chinese scientists and/or physicians have reported:

The disease ostensibly transmitted to humans by contact with infected pigs in China's Sichuan province is a mutated Ebola virus. Loftus added about the virus, "Think part Ebola, part AIDS."

Here are the rest of my notes on Loftus' report last night:

> Reportedly there have been many more human deaths from the disease than China's authorities are acknowledging.

> There are reports that "large concentration camps" have been set up in Sichuan where Chinese with symptoms from the illness are being taken "to die."

> The disease has an 82% fatality rate among humans.

> The disease has spread to hundreds of villages in Sichuan.

> Loftus has gotten confirmation that eight Chinese scientists and/or physicians who initially passed their data (about the Ebola connection) to the World Health Organization (WHO) have been arrested by the authorities in China and are being held incommunicado.**

> China's authorities are not allowing WHO to take samples of the virus and have stated that the number of deaths from the virus is a "state secret." ***

> It can't be established at this point whether the X virus, shall we term it, has exchanged genetic material with H5N1. Loftus found it suggestive (or passed along what others have noted) that there is a possible link:

The X virus could be connected with hundreds of ducks who died in Sichuan and were eaten by villagers. Initially these ducks were reportedly infected with H5N1 but this situation is murky because China's authorities have withheld much data. Also, whether this situation could be connected with the reported swine deaths is unclear.

> Loftus passed along his sources' speculation that there has been a fowl to swine to human transmission of the X virus. As to whether there is human to human (H2H) transmission, this is not established because China's health agencies have not shared key data with outside health agencies.

> If the X virus is carried by migratory birds/fowl, as with H5N1, the disease could quickly spread to other countries even without H2H.

Pundita's observations on last night's report
As with several John Loftus reports, this one should be considered "intelligence" rather than evidence. The most I can say with certainty is that John's sources in Western intelligence agencies and militaries are excellent and that from his report, clearly they believe at this stage that the X virus is a mutated form of Ebola.

With regard to Beijing's covering up the extent of the outbreak -- the historical and present patterns are so well established, and verified from so many sources, that I consider it an established fact.

Other sources on the story
Check the Pundita sidebar for websites that report on Avian flu virus. Also, I recommend that readers regularly check The Epoch Times daily to look for updates on the X virus, H5N1 in China, and Beijing's moves to cover up the X virus outbreak and stonewall international health agencies. This July 31 Epoch Times story is focused on asking whether there is a H5N1 pandemic already underway
but it also provides background on the X virus outbreak.

Despite Beijing's ongoing attempts to discredit The Epoch Times, I found the paper's July 31 report to be well-sourced. It's to be noted that The Epoch Times helped break the SARS story, which Beijing also tried to cover up.

US foreign policy implications
Whatever the exact nature of the X virus, it is beyond question that the authorities in China have not provided the US Center for Disease Control with data about the extent of the H5N1 outbreak in China. It is past time for the US Department of State to issue a strongly worded demand for transparency and recommend sanctions if Beijing does not comply.

* If you have questions about John Loftus' reports on the mutated virus kindly direct them to him at: loftus@intelligencesummit.org

** Chinese reporters (I speculate these might include the above-mentioned scientists) who filed stories with Boxun about a possible Ebola connection to the virus have also been arrested by the Chinese authorities. See The Epoch Times story above.

*** China's authorities have also designated as a "state secret" the number of human deaths in China from H5N1. This means that WHO, CDC and other health agencies are lacking critical data to help them track the spread of H5N1 in humans.


# posted by Pundita : 8/02/2005 10:15:00 PM

[sanico]

Doc, What are the symptoms of ebola-reston on pigs? What and how are the medications and pre-cautions to prevent the spread of ebola-reston?
Thanks,
Nick

[mikey]

Hogs found positive for ebola virus – DoH, DA
12/10/2008 | 09:11 PM

Email this | Email the Editor | Print | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us (Updated 11:58 p.m.) MANILA, Philippines — Hogs in at least four piggery farms in Luzon were found positive for ebola reston virus, the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

Radio dzBB’s Tuesday Niu said both agencies have called for a joint press conference Wednesday evening to warn the public about the recent developments.

DA Secretary Arthur Yap, however, said most of the hogs that were tested by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) yielded negative results.

He added that out of the 28 pig tissues that the RITM have examined in different parts of the country from May to September this year, only six were confirmed positive for the virus.

As of 6 p.m. Wednesday RITM said 94 percent of the blood samples of the hogs from the three piggeries were tested negative for Ebola.

Both agencies also reminded the public that pork meat should be properly cleaned and thoroughly cooked before they are eaten.

BusinessWorld reported that commercial hog farms in Pandi (Bulacan province), Manaoag (Pangasinan) and backyard farms in Talavera and Cabanatuan (Nueva Ecija) have been quarantined. Butchers and animal handlers in the farms were tested free of the virus.

The test results were sent to the departments in late October, Davinio P. Catbagan, director of the Bureau of Animal Industry, told reporters. "As a precautionary measure, we issued more restrictions [in the movement of hogs]," he added.

Ebola reston, a sub-type of ebola, has been discovered from crab-eating macaques imported from the Philippines. Out of 20 persons who handled the macaques, only one was tested positive due to flu-like symptoms. The person eventually recovered.

Soe Nyunt-U, country representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), said the infections were the first cases reported in the country.

As a precautionary measure, the public was asked to report sick animals to city and provincial veterinarians and to refrain from buying meat without the National Meat Inspection Service certification, the Agriculture department said.

The Agriculture department also issued a ban on pork exports. Yap said this will sideline the country’s bid to export pork products for the first time.

The government is planning to exporting choiced pork cuts to Singapore early next year.

The Health department will request international health agencies like the Food and Agriculture Organization, WHO and the World Organization for Animal Health (also known for the French acronym OIE) to send representatives and create a joint risk assessment team, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said.
 
God, this is the last thing the industry needs,loss of export markets

[mr hog]

Mike lets hope this is not a loss for the exporters..The phills does not need this write now.

[Slyfox]

Ebolante Virus 



Tinamaan ang Luzon na Ban ang Mindanao for Singapore Export 




and allow pampanga's best to sell there uncooked food here in mindanao 



Only in the Philippines

[mikey]

Filipino Hogs Found Positive for Ebola Virus
THE PHILIPPINES - Hogs in four Philippine piggery farms have been found positive for Ebola Reston virus, the Department of Health (DoH) and Department of Agriculture (DA) reported yesterday.



As of yesterday evening, Ebola Reston cases were confirmed in four farms in Luzon, the northern Philippines, after six out of 28 hogs tested positive for the virus.

Arthur Yap, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, allayed fears that the disease will be transferred to humans from infected hogs, Philippine TV network GMA News reported.

There has been no documented case on the virus being transmitted from hogs to humans, said the agriculture chief.

"This is an animal health problem and not a human issue," Yap said.

Yap added that most of the hog samples that were tested yesterday yielded negative results.

Meanwhile, he advised the public that pork meat should be properly cleaned and thoroughly cooked before they are eaten.

"The WHO (World Health Organization) said that the meat should be thoroughly cooked because the heat could kill the virus. The meat should likewise be properly handled and washed," Yap said.

On Thursday, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) set up "hog checkpoints" to prevent the transport of pigs from four piggery farms in Luzon for slaughter or breeding.

Soledad Agbayani, president of the Philippine Association of Hog Farmers, likewise said the Ebola Reston virus was not harmful to humans.

"The virus is not harmful to humans but to be sure, make sure the meat you eat is not 'double dead'," Agbayani told a local radio.

Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture has issued a ban on pork exports to other countries.

The government was planning to export choice pork cuts to Singapore early next year.

Ebola-Reston, a sub-type of the Ebola, was first discovered in 1989 from crab-eating macaques originating in the Philippines. Reportedly, it is non-pathogenic to humans and is only mildly fatal to monkeys.

[nemo]

Hogs found positive for Ebola virus – DoH, DA
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lets just hope this is a ebola-like virus and not the real deal.  I remember around 1999-2002 where cases of ebola was reported in some primate farm in the philippines and in the end it was reassess as an ebola-like virus and not the ebola-reston strain which is feared by most...
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as an update the government say it is the ebola reston strain but of a different type... How different it was not specified.
A news in abs cbn say that a farm from neuva ecija, bulacan, pangasinan is positive and being quarantined.

I have to retract  this a bit...
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This is an article dated 1997

Philippines to Kill 600 Monkeys with Ebola Virus
from:highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18031994.html
Article from: Xinhua English Newswire
Article date: January 24, 1997 More results for: ferlite farm philippines |
 Copyright information

The Philippine environmental authority has ordered the immediate killing of some 600 monkeys at a breeding facility in Laguna province, the central Philippines, to prevent an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

Today's Manila Times quoted Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Victor Ramos as saying that the order was issued after a six-week investigation by a multisectoral committee showed that the Ebola Reston Strain continued to infect the monkeys at the Ferlite farm.

"Although there is a remote possibility that it will infect humans, we will not take the risk," Ramos said, adding that around 600 Philippine macaque monkeys are still at the farm. Ramos also ordered the closure of the ..."

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During that time the ebola reston is being feared because it is new in our country and it was called ebola-like virus. Add to that during that decade there was a movie about ebola... So, my mentality is that ebola-reston is dangerous... But according to new study this type of ebola is milder in form and there is no case that it infect a human being.

[nemo]

Another article about ebola reston, its origin in the philippines

he outbreak of EBO-R in the United States caused by infected monkeys in the United States prompted the Philippine government to investigate whether the workers in the primate facilities were at risk for contracting EBO-R, and, if so, to what degree they were at risk. The investigative team studied 186 people, 48 of whom were from wildlife collection areas and the remaining 138 were from the four primate export facilities in the area (Ferlite Farms being one of the four). Twelve of the 186 people tested had serological evidence of infection with EBO-R. 22% of the workers at Ferlite Farms had positive IFAT (indirect fluorescent antibody test) titers, which was significantly higher than at the other three export facilities. Of the five employees in Ferlite's animal hospital, four had positive IFATs. Workers in the hospital had more positive titers than the rest of the workers at Ferlite Farms.
All of the monkeys at Ferlite were killed after this outbreak of EBO-R in 1989.


Ferlite Farms
Ferlite Farms is located in a 2.5 to 3-hectare area in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines, which is approximately 40 km South of Manila. Ferlite uses open cages as their holding facilities. Individual cages are used in their quarantine facility. Until 1996, Ferlite exported 1500 monkeys annually to the United States. The monkeys used for breeding come from Zamboanga and Iligan City. Supposedly, Ferlite quarantines the monkeys 30 days prior to shipping.

[nemo]

In swine, it show sign of respiratory problem and fever.

[mikey]

Hog Checkpoints Set Up Amid Ebola Scare
THE PHILIPPINES - The National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) on Thursday said it has intensified its meat inspection efforts following the discovery of hogs in at least three piggery farms in Luzon tested positive for ebola reston virus.



NMIS Director Jane Bacayo said he has ordered strict monitoring of slaughterhouses all over the country.

He also directed its personnel to properly screen the requirements being submitted by hog dealers for the issuance of health certificates.

On the other hand, Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) director Dave Catbagan said they have set up "hog checkpoints" to prevent the transport of pigs from the infected piggery farms in Luzon for slaughter or breeding.

He said they already coordinated with local government officials of the provinces concerned to prevent such transports.

"Walang makalalabas, na-coordinate na natin mula pa kagabi sa governors at mayors. May nagbabantay doon na mobile police (Pigs from those farms will not get out. We already coordinated with mayors and governors concerned. Police will set up checkpoints to make sure pigs from the infected farms will not get out)," he said.

"I'm assuring the public walang makakalabas na baboy (no pigs will be allowed to be brought out of the farms concerned) for slaughter and breeding," he added.

 Philippines reports hog virus
[12 December 2008] The Philippine government has announced that some samples sent to Plum Island for testing for PRRS were also found positive for ebola reston virus. The samples came from four farms in Central Luzon. This is the first time that the virus is reported in pigs, although it has previously been detected in monkeys. The Philippine Departments of Agriculture and Health, as well as the World Health Organisation quickly clarified however that the ebola reston virus is non-pathogenic and therefore the public can continue to consume pork meat and pork products, however they encouraged consumers to buy only from accredited retailers, and to properly handle, wash and cook the pork meat. They also said that subsequent testings done on the concerned farms and their workers, as well as slaughterhouses and their workers returned negative results. 
 
 
 
 
 

[mikey]

Friday, December 19, 2008Print This Page
Ebola Virus Found in Pig Farm
PHILIPPINES - A 30-hectare piggery farm in Barangay Parian was placed under quarantine this week as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the dreaded ebola reston virus.



The move was undertaken after the Tropical Disease Institute of the Philippines (TDIP) examined all the hogs in the Lambino Farm here and found most of its swine were afflicted with ebola reston virus.

The virus was discovered when specimens of hogs being raised in the Lambino farm, located at the boundary of Manaoag to Mapandan town, were examined by TDIP in a regular field check-up of animals.

Department of Agriculture Regional Director Cipriano Santiago rushed to the farm Thursday morning along with officials of the Bureau of Animal Industry and Department of Health and municipal health office to check on the farm.

Joining them in the inspection were veterinary officers of Pangasinan and Manaoag town, the municipal agriculture officer and the town police headed by Supt. Mateo Casupang.

He immediately imposed a quarantine on the farm to ensure that no hog is brought out for sale and no more hogs will come in till the area is declared safe.

Mr Santiago said this means that the piggery farm would be closely monitored 24 hours a day to ensure that the requirement is strictly followed.

Mr Santiago later said the ebola reston virus that attacked the swine in the Lambino Farm is a strain that affects only the hogs but not humans, which means, that the matter "is not a concern on public health but on animal health."

He called on the people not to panic because the meat of such infected animals can be eaten if washed and cooked thoroughly.

Mr Santiago said that so far, it is only in the Lambino farm in the entire province of Pangasinan where the ebola reston virus was detected.

Dr Raymond Veloria, municipal health officer of Manaoag, who was among those who inspected the piggery farm, said based on the findings of the TDIP most of the swine and piglets in the farm were infected by the virus.

Dr Veloria reported that the farm has 14 sows, 11 boars, 53 growers, 70 weanlings, and 217 piglets for fattening.

The initial inventory showed there were 62 piglets suffering from diarrhoea, he said.

Dr Veloria added that based on these findings, the Municipal Health Office, together with the Department of Health and the DA, recommended that the farm be quarantined for at least one to two months.

Dr Veloria said people should not panic because the ebola reston virus is non-pathogenic in humans and the infected piglets do not transmit the disease.

Saying that ebola virus came from monkeys and first afflicted Africans, like those from Kenya and Congo, Dr Veloria believes an infected person or monkey from those African countries may have carried the virus to the Philippines.

Dr Veloria revealed that per documentation, the same strain of the virus was also detected in some farms in Bulacan and Nueva Ecija.

[nemo]

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