ASF: a new case in the Poltava region

Submitted by bashun on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 14:36

On January 18, 2018 in the Poltava region, the corpse of a wild boar was found on the territory of the hunting grounds of the PE Hunting and fishing subsidiary " Vilkhuvatske" (Chutivskyi district).

This is reported by the press service of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

The presence of DNA of the ASF virus was confirmed in laboratory studies.

With a view to coordinating actions to localize and eliminate outbreaks of ASF, a meeting of state emergency antiepizootic commissions was held at Chutivskyi and Khotyn district state administrations, whose decisions approved plans for the elimination of ASF, defined the borders of epizootic foci, protection and surveillance zones.

In the foci of the disease, measures are taken to localize and prevent the spread of the causative agent of the disease.
 

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