Table 4.
Prevention and treatments actions by farmers.
| Diseases | Prevention and treatment (group name) |
|---|---|
| Sick pigs in general | Confine, clean/spray pigs and treat with traditional medicine (some work/pigs recover, some don't work/pigs die). (Dato women and men). |
| No modern medicine as no shop nearby. Field technicians come and treat but pigs continue to get sick, lose weight and die. We understand a bit of theory but don't know proper medicine to treat (Dato men) | |
| Use traditional medicines or can buy medicines at agricultural shops and giving injection by ourselves. Because when calling the technicians they ask for petrol to fill their motor bike (Ritabou men) | |
| Tatoha (coughing, difficult breathing) | Give traditional medicines “aeftata” = wood charcoal. Scrape then mix up with water and pigs drink. (Acumau men) |
| Burn crowbar (till hot) and put in the food then feed the pig. Buy medicine “amoxicilin, cotrimox at the small shop (crush them then put in the water drink or food) Slicing the tree bark then boil and give it to pig. (Acumau women) | |
| Offering sugar and water—sometimes pigs recover. Traditional medicine mixed up with water (Seloi M women and Ritabou women) | |
| Buying medicine in small shop—ampicillin (Gildapil women) | |
| Parasites (worms) | Traditional medicine: “aeftata”—mix charcoal with salt water and give to pigs to drink (Acumau men) |
| Just buying the medicines nearby (Seloi M women and Ritabou women) | |
| Using traditional medicines we get a good result. Also can use commercial medicine that sells at agricultural shop (all treatments we did have a good result). All medicines we treat by ourselves (Ritabou men) | |
| Swollen head and suddenly dead | Traditional medicine- soak cattle and monkey leather and give to drink (Acumau men) |
| Called field technician (Seloi M men). Some treated survived, some dead. | |
| Tried traditional medicine but still die (Gildapil men) | |
| Inflamed liver, swollen head, hard breathing, and hypersalivation, red spots, lameness. Sudden death. [ASF] | Tried many medicines but did not work (Acumau men and women; Leorema men) |
| Tried using tree bark but did not work (Leorema women) | |
| Scared to eat pork or bring pork from outside (Leorema men) | |
| Cannot do anything (Seloi M women and men, Gildapil men and Ritabou women and men) | |
| Itching/Scabies | Clean with detergent and rub with oil. Rub with kerosene has a good result as all the ticks die and make hair shiny. Some people ask field techs to give them assistance (Acumau women) |
| Mix up water and detergent then pour on whole body. The result was sometimes recovery but sometimes die. Another traditional medicine is kerosene mixed up with bitter flower then rub on the body (Seloi M women and Ritabou women) | |
| Using traditional medicine/herbal “tabacco,” detergent and kerosene then pouring on the body (Gildapil men) | |
| Use traditional way like pouring oil and herbal leaves (Seloi M men) | |
| Diarrhea | Informing field tech to doing treatment even though we don't know exactly the drugs (Gildapil men) |