{"id":259903,"date":"2020-06-30T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259903"},"modified":"2020-06-30T21:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:33:31","slug":"da-assures-no-pork-imports-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/30\/da-assures-no-pork-imports-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"DA assures no pork imports from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231326\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3972348087_cb22089b23_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231326 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3972348087_cb22089b23_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3972348087_cb22089b23_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3972348087_cb22089b23_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3972348087_cb22089b23_b-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He reminded the public to report any unusual pig mortalities to farm veterinarians or the nearest government veterinary and agricultural office and to consult a physician when experiencing flu-like symptoms. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proimos\/3972348087\/in\/photolist-742jG8-24QE3jc-fy2zju-oWHSxK-iaJWEw-or2qKD-bSDrxx-63F2nG-LBy7io-4jvhh6-bSt7Ha-oXqBGm-5oByBe-\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proimos\/\">Alex Proimos\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday assured that the Philippines does not import swine or pork products from China.<\/p>\n<p>DA Assistant Secretary Noel Reyes made the statement following reports that Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, the virus named G4 descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a global outbreak in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIna-<\/em>assure\u00a0<em>po ng<\/em>\u00a0DA, through the BAI (Bureau of Animal Industry),\u00a0<em>na tayo po ay wala pa nito at hindi po tayo nag i<\/em>-import\u00a0<em>ng baboy at<\/em>\u00a0pork products from China.\u00a0<em>Hindi pa po pwede<\/em>\u00a0(The DA, through the BAI, assures that we still don\u2019t have this [disease] and we do not import hogs and pork products from China. It is still not allowed),\u201d Reyes said during a virtual briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the public to report any unusual pig mortalities to farm veterinarians or the nearest government veterinary and agricultural office and to consult a physician when experiencing flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reports on flu-like symptoms have been increasing this rainy season and this could affect both the agricultural workers and our swine production,\u201d Reyes said.\u00a0<em>\u201cIpatawag niyo po sa<\/em>\u00a0nearest government office\u00a0<em>nyo dyan sa ating mga munisipyo at i<\/em>-consult\u00a0<em>ho ang<\/em>\u00a0physician\u00a0<em>doon sa mga<\/em>\u00a0veterinary offices (Call your nearest government office in the municipality and consult the physicians in veterinary offices).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the DA also urged local swine farm owners to consult their licensed veterinarian to review farm biosafety and biosecurity programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday assured that the Philippines does not import swine or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":231326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259904,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259903\/revisions\/259904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}