Cambodia: Pork sales plummet due to blue-ear disease

This comes as a consequence to the outbreak of blue-ear disease in the country and the warnings relayed by government officials to consumers that if pork meats from infected animals are eaten, illness (severe diarrhoea) could occur in people who have had the meat from animals which have not been cooked properly; although a United Nations official stated that the disease could not be contracted by humans.

 

“Before, I sold around 20 pigs per day, but now I can sell only seven or eight pigs,” said a vendor.

 

Earlier in the month, a ban on pig imports from Thailand and Vietnam was put in place in order to halt the spreading of the disease.

 

Also read: Pig imports banned in Cambodia

Also read: Vietnam sees Blue-ear pig disease spread to 13 provinces
 

 

Source: phnompenhpost.com