Chapter 131 (1/2)

No matter whether the Lin family's mysterious ”son-in-law to be” is an expert or not, President Wu has guessed one thing.

That's the epidemic. It really broke out two months ago!

About two months ago, when the Medical Laboratory of the North American livestock slaughtering and Quarantine Association carried out routine epidemic prevention inspection on the ranch of tiger food group, the North American breeding giant, it found a new highly infectious classical swine fever virus.

The virus is very evil. At the initial stage of infection, there is almost no manifestation of clinical adverse reactions. Until 24-28 weeks, the animals will show fever, skin ulceration and other malignant symptoms, and will die within 1-2 weeks after the onset of the disease.

If it is slaughtered within 24 weeks, without careful examination and medical analysis in a professional virus laboratory, it is almost difficult to distinguish the difference between sick pork and healthy pork, and even the infected pigs can not be detected intensively in all parts.

Although the virus is not transmitted to humans, people who eat diseased pork will get fever, and even have severe symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and even coma according to the severity of the toxicity.

Even if it is high temperature stew, it is difficult to completely eliminate the impact!

And the most terrible thing is that although people themselves will not be infected with this virus, they may become the vector of the virus, which can be transmitted to other pigs through excreta or other metabolic forms.

If the epidemic prevention work had been actively carried out at that time, the plague would have been under control. The problem, however, is that it's almost impossible.

Agriculture is the pillar of North American economy, and animal husbandry is the most important part of North American agricultural structure.

Especially raising pigs.

After all, Xia Guo, the leader of the people's Federation, is the largest pork consumer in the world. In order to earn soft money, most of the pastures in North America are dominated by pork, followed by domestic consumption of beef.

This kind of industrial structure has been formed in the first two years since the integration of the people's Federation of China. And the breeding enterprises in North America are really striving for success. They have gained a lot of high technology through pork.

In recent years, pork export volume has reached a new high year by year. In order to improve productivity, the major farms in North America have made great efforts to squeeze the production efficiency per unit area to the limit.

If the epidemic report is spread, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the local breeding enterprises in North America.

In particular, the ranch where CSFV was first detected is the breeding ranch of tiger food, the largest breeding enterprise in North America.

If we let the outside world know that the farms of tiger food are contaminated by classical swine fever virus, it will not only threaten the survival of a breeding enterprise of tiger food, but also severely damage the pork export industry of North America!

This is not only about the source of foreign exchange income in North America, but also about the livelihood of thousands of jobs and tens of thousands of families.

If they go bankrupt, the impact will be worse than classical swine fever.

Therefore, under the pressure from the North American Department of agriculture and vested interests, the North American livestock slaughtering and Quarantine Association finally chose to compromise and hide the report.

Although this is not the same as giving up treatment, it is obvious to cut the flesh and mend the sores while continuing to produce and prevent the epidemic. And tiger food's attitude towards epidemic prevention is also quite negative. Compared with the epidemic situation, it obviously cares more about the sales volume of more than 10 million ”products” sold every year. In order to catch up with the basket and deliver as much as possible, it even started a price war by reducing the price.

This is one of the main reasons for the surge in pork imports and the closure of small and medium-sized farms in October.

However, the paper can't hold the fire after all. As the infected area continues to expand, it even invades the cold chain transportation and food processing fields. In just two months, almost the entire ranch on the west coast has been occupied.

It was not until the import and export port on the east coast of Xiaguo detected abnormal pathogens from the imported pork and sent them to the medical laboratory for analysis that this layer of window paper was completely pierced.

good heavens!

How dare you feel that all the pork sent by your friend is poisonous?!

The only lucky thing is that most of the pork put on the market in the previous month were frozen stocks, and some of the pork obtained from slaughtering of adult pigs which had no symptoms of infection or had been infected for a short time.

After the shipment of this part of meat, the ”inferior products” obtained after slaughtering of sick pigs with clinical symptoms will be put on the market.

After finding the problem, Xiaguo animal disease prevention and control center and customs immediately issued an orange warning, and emergency closed the pork import channel from North America to Xiaguo port.

I can't hide it this time.

In the face of more and more doubts, the North American livestock slaughtering and Quarantine Association finally could not bear the pressure, admitted the failure of epidemic prevention, and confessed the situation of swine plague which had been hidden for two months.

Public opinion in the international community is naturally in an uproar.