岐阜で豚コレラ、８１００頭殺処分＝ワクチン接種へ国の転換後初

　岐阜県は２２日、恵那市にある養豚場で家畜伝染病「豚コレラ」が発生したと発表した。県は自衛隊に災害派遣を要請し、養豚場の飼育豚約８１００頭を殺処分する。感染拡大防止へ農林水産省が２０日に豚へのワクチン接種に方針転換して以来、飼育豚での感染判明は初めて。
　岐阜県では昨年９月、２６年ぶりに国内で豚への感染が見つかり、これまで県内の殺処分頭数は約７万頭に上る。古田肇知事は２２日、県庁で対策会議を開き「大変残念な思い。ワクチン接種について今後具体的な方法などを（国と）確認したい」と話した。（2019/09/22-16:48）

The Gifu prefectural government has revealed a new case of swine fever, the first outbreak confirmed for farm pigs since Japan's agriculture ministry, in a policy shift, decided on Friday to use vaccines against the highly contagious disease to prevent its further spread.
   The local government has asked the Self-Defense Forces to send troops to help it slaughter some 8,100 pigs raised at a farm where the new outbreak occurred, in the city of Ena in the central Japan prefecture.
   A total of some 70,000 pigs have been culled in Gifu since the first swine fever infection among pigs in Japan in 26 years was confirmed in the prefecture in September 2018.
   Since then, the disease has spread to other prefectures, with the efforts to contain the crisis having failed to produce results, leading the ministry to opt for vaccinating farm pigs. Earlier, the ministry was reluctant on vaccination partly because Japan would lose its swine fever-free status under the rules of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) once vaccines are used, a situation that could affect Japanese pork exports.
   "The new swine fever outbreak is very regrettable," Gifu Governor Hajime Furuta said at a meeting held at the prefectural government office on Sunday to discuss measures in response to the latest case. "I want to hold talks (with the central government) on details of the vaccination plan."