An outbreak of African swine fever in a pig farm of a private entrepreneur of the Kustynska village council of the Rivne district

Submitted by bashun on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 11:03

The Main Department of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Rivne region informs that on October 31, 2017 an outbreak of African swine fever was recorded on the pig farm of the private entrepreneur of the Kustynska village council of the Rivne district of the Rivne region.

On October 30, 2017, a private entrepreneur phoned the State Veterinary Medicine Service of the Rivne district and reported on the death and disease of pigs to his pig farm. When specialists of veterinary medicine left the place, 16 corpses of pigs of different age groups and 207 heads of live pigs of different age groups in cages were found in the pig farm premises. In some live pigs, elevated body temperature to 42.00C, a shaky gait and cyanosis on the skin of the tips of the ears, abdomen and extremities are noted. In this pig farm pigs are kept in the same room.

Specialists of the state veterinary medicine selected pathological material from 4 corpses of pigs of different age groups and sent to the Rivne Regional State Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine for further referral to the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Expertise in Kiev. On October 31, 2017 the disease of ASF pigs was established (Report on the results of the study of pathological (biological) material No. 008846 p.m. / 17 dated October 31, 2017).

On October 31, 2017 at 17.00, the SEAC was held at the Rivne Regional State Administration which was quarantined for pig farms and protection and surveillance zones were defined.

In a dysfunctional site, measures are taken to localize and eliminate African swine fever in accordance with the "Instruction for the Prevention and Control of African Swine Fever" approved by the Order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on 07.03.2017 No. 111, registered in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on March 29 2017. for №432 / 30300 and the "Plan of Measures to Prevent Dissemination and Elimination of the Disease" approved by the decision of the PPP under the Rivne Regional State Administration.
 

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