Ukraine’s State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Rights Protection in the past several days received confirmation of African swine fever (ASF) diagnosed during the examination of the selected samples of biological material of pigs that died in Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Kirovohrad and Odessa regions.
The press service reported that 56 pigs died in Chapayev LLC in settlement of Rivne (Kirovohrad region). The farm held 2,000 pigs.
Some 70 pigs died in a farm in Yaroslavka settlement of Odessa region. The farm breeds 140 pigs.
Eight pigs died in the Suvorov farm in Prybuzhzhia settlement of Mykolaiv region out of 277 pigs.
Measures are being taken to localize the disease on the site of the outbreak and prevent the spread of ASF pathogens.
The ASF virus is the causative agent of ASF. The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in pigs, but persistently infects natural hosts, warthogs, bush pigs and soft ticks of the Ornithodoros genus, without any visible symptoms. There is currently no vaccine against ASF. (Interfax/Business World Magazine)
