The disease or Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), which broke out in Quang Nam in late June, hit 11 districts, infecting about 24,200 and killing nearly 1,500 pigs in the province.

The outbreaks of the disease in Quang Nam has resulted in huge economic losses for local farmers. The provincial People’s Committee estimated that it would take the farmers at least two years to recover their sow herds.

The province itself spent more than VND15 billion (US$937,500) battling PPRS and supporting farmers who suffered from losses caused by the disease.

Quang Nam’s agricultural authorities are currently trying to supply new pigs to the devastated farmers, according to the committee.

Earlier on Monday, the central city of Da Nang made it off the black list of PPRS-stricken provinces nation-wide.

The list currently includes three provinces, including another central province of Quang Ngai and two southern ones, Binh Dinh and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

PRRS causes high fevers, respiratory problems as well as constipation and diarrhoea in pigs. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has confirmed that it cannot be transmitted to humans.