Peste porcina clásica: programa de control y erradicación, un análisis de la situación actual en el Ecuador.

Abstract

Classical swine fever (CSFV) is a viral disease whose etiological agent belongs to the genus Pestivirus, within the Flaviviridae family, which affects swine and wild pigs. The OIE considers it a notifiable disease, the disease can take various forms (acute, chronic or prenatal) depending on the virulence of the strain, its mode of transmission can be directly, indirectly and after placental. In 2009, a swine health plan was developed to prevent, control and eradicate the disease, Ecuador, like other countries, needs to depend on vaccination to eradicate CSF in accordance with the officially recognized guidelines issued by the Animal Health Law Terrestrial. This work is qualitative in scope, based on the analysis of secondary references on VPPC in Ecuador, with the aim of knowing the control and eradication programs carried out in the country and its current situation in the face of the disease. After 10 years of the creation of the eradication plan, its execution ends this year and as a result currently projected the country should be free of CSFV, however, in 2020 the work on post-plague eradication continues classical swine, vaccinating and identifying more than 5'349.465 pigs in the national territory, with the reduction of outbreaks, by 70%, the international certification of a free zone of classical swine fever in Galapagos was obtained without vaccination.