群馬で豚熱、５４００頭処分へ　ワクチン未接種の子豚感染

　農林水産省は２６日、群馬県高崎市の養豚場で家畜伝染病「豚熱（ＣＳＦ）」に感染した豚が見つかったと発表した。この養豚場では感染を未然に防ぐワクチンを接種していたが、感染が確認された子豚は未接種だった。県は法律に基づき、この養豚場の全約５４００頭を殺処分する。
　国内の養豚場での発生は約半年ぶり。２０１８年に国内で２６年ぶりに感染が確認されて以降、群馬県内の養豚場では初めて。県では、ＣＳＦに感染した野生イノシシが見つかったことを受け、昨年１０月から養豚場でのワクチン接種が始まっている。（2020/09/26-21:59）

Japan's agriculture ministry said Saturday that classical swine fever infection has been confirmed at a pig farm in the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, marking the first outbreak of the infectious disease among farmed pigs in the country in about half a year.
   It is the first CSF case at a pig farm in the eastern Japan prefecture since the first outbreak in Japan in 26 years was confirmed in 2018. The Gunma prefectural government will slaughter all of some 5,400 pigs at the farm in accordance with law.
   In the prefecture, vaccination started for farmed pigs in October last year, following the discovery of a CSF-infected wild boar. But the animals found with the disease at the affected farm, all piglets, had yet to be vaccinated.
   Early this month, piglets at the Takasaki farm started to die after suffering from diarrhea, and the number of deaths has reached about 200, according to the prefectural government. The prefecture conducted tests on pigs at the farm following a report from its operator on Friday, and infection was confirmed for three piglets about 70 days after birth.
   Pigs are given vaccines around when the antibodies they received from their mothers disappear. The three dead piglets were covered by the program, but had yet to be vaccinated as they were showing symptoms of diarrhea, according to the prefecture.