Gary Flory - Foreign Experience with African Swine Fever
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Foreign Experience with African Swine Fever - Gary Flory, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, from the 2020 Iowa Pork Congress, held January 22 - 23, 2020, Des Moines, IA, USA.
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Gary Flory - Foreign Experience with African Swine Fever
- 1. ASF Lessons from Southeast Asia: Depopulation, Disposal and Decontamination Presented by Gary Flory Iowa Pork Congress 2020 January 23, 2020
- 2. Depopulation
- 4. Carcass Disposal November 13, 2019 Korean river runs red from blood of pigs culled amid African swine fever outbreak As South Korea battles an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF), the destruction of some 47,000 pigs has led to the Imjin River, which runs through the demilitarised zone, turning blood red. The strange colour is the result of the river being polluted with the blood of many of the slaughtered pigs. Heavy rains caused their blood to flow from a border burial site into a tributary of the Imjin. South Korean authorities culled the pigs in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, which is highly contagious and incurable, with a near zero survival rate for infected pigs.
- 6. Above Ground BurialGrinding/Composting New Methods
- 7. Composting
- 8. Carcass Grinding/Composting Ø December 2018 – Proof of Concept Demonstration – Virginia Ø February 2019 – Operational Scale Project – North Carolina Ø July 2019 – Operational scale project – North Carolina Ø August 2019 – Operational scale project – North Carolina Ø September 2019 – Training for Swine Industry Representatives 8
- 9. Potential Benefits Ø Significantly reduces composting time o From 6 to 9 months to 30 days Ø May reduce the amount of carbon needed Ø Increased temperatures Ø Decreases long-term management 9
- 10. Proof of Concept Demo - Virginia
- 11. Operational Scale Demonstrations – North Carolina 11
- 13. ØHybrid of composting and burial ØCarcasses in biologically active soil zone ØDeep burial – very little biological activity Biological Process
- 15. Chinese criminals have been exploiting the country's African swine fever crisis by intentionally spreading the disease to force farmers to sell their pigs for a low price before smuggling the meat and selling it on as healthy stock, state media has reported. Sometimes the gangs spread rumours about the virus, which is fatal to pigs, but in more extreme cases they are using drones to drop infected items into farms, according to an investigation by the magazine China Comment, which is affiliated to state news agency Xinhua. "One of our branches once spotted drones air dropping unknown objects into our piggery, and later inspection found [the] virus in those things," a farmer manager told the reporters.
- 16. Contact Info: G.A. Flory Consulting garyaflory@gmail.com http://gafloryconsulting.com Also available through Skype (gaflory), WhatsApp (1-540-820- 0934) and LinkedIn QUESTIONS?