A truck carrying live pigs imported from Thailand through Lao Bao Border Gate is being sprayed disinfection. (Photo: MARD)
This morning, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued Official Letter No.3157 to the Thai Embassy in Hanoi on suspending the import of live pigs for slaughter for food from Thailand into Vietnam. The official letter signed by Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien stated that according to the announcement of the animal quarantine agency under the Department of Animal Health of Vietnam, on May 19, this year, during the quarantine process of imported live pigs, including 980 live pigs imported from Thailand into Vietnam for slaughter for food, this agency discovered that this batch of live pigs was infected with ASF.
To prevent ASF from entering Vietnam and spreading the disease to domestic pig herds, the MARD has informed the Thai Embassy in Hanoi…
