On the cases of ASF in Cherkasy and Odesa regions as of 25.05.2018

Submitted by bashun on Wed, 05/30/2018 - 18:00

According to the information of the Main Directorate of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Cherkasy region on May 23, 2013, a disease and the death of a pig were recorded in the subsidiary farm of the psycho-neurological boarding school (Male Starosillia village, Smilianskyi district, Cherkasy region).

In the study of selected samples of biomaterial in the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and the Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise (Kyiv), on 23.05.2018, a diagnosis was made of African swine fever (ASF) (report on the results of study No. 005282 p.m./18 of 23/05/2018).

In addition, according to the information of the Main Directorate of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Odesa region, the disease and the death of pigs were recorded in the personal subsidiary plots of citizens (Nova Pokrovka village, Izmailskyi region and Vasylivka village, Bolhradskyi district, Odesa region).

In the study of the selected samples of the biomaterial in the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and the Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise on 23.05.2018 and 24.05.2018 the diagnosis of ASF was established (reports on the results of the study No. 005276 p.m/18 of 23.05.2018 and No. 005220 p.m./18 of 24.05.2018).

With a view to coordinating actions to localize and eliminate outbreaks of ASF, a meeting of state emergency antiepizootic commissions was held at Smilianskyi, Izmailskyi and Bolhradskyi regional state administrations. The decisions of which approved plans for the elimination of ASF, 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 pathogen of ASF.

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