A resident of Zhytomyr region brought 45 pigs to the center of infection of the Emergency Situations Ministry of the Rivne region

Submitted by bashun on Fri, 10/20/2017 - 13:38

Tonight, patrol policemen for an hour were on duty near the Kyiv-Chop highway in the village of Tarakaniv of Dubenskyi district.

As the press-secretary of the Rivne patrol police Oksana Yurchenko has informed, policemen at night received information that dozens of pigs run along the highway "Kiev-Chop" in the village of Tarakaniv of Dubenskyi district.
Law enforcers in the Tarakaniv village, a few dozen meters from an international highway, found corpses of pigs and dozens of live animals in one of the private farms. It turned out that they were brought by a resident of the Zhytomyr region. Before, according to him, he bought animals in the Tarakaniv village. Bringing them home saw that they began to die from African swine fever. The previous owner, who is also a resident of Zhytomyr, refused to take the pigs back. So he decided to unload corpses with alive animals near the farm, where he bought pigs.
From five to six o'clock the police guarded the scene of the incident and did not let the animals leave the track.

As the head of the department of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Rivne region Volodymyr Lazarchuk told IA ZIK that the specialists of the administration had arrived at the scene at six in the morning. Together with workers of other services, they carried out a bloodless method of killing 45 pigs and buried them in a special place.

As we already reported, on October 10, a conclusion was received on the results of a study of pathological material in which a disease of pigs in one of the farms of the village of Tarakaniv of Dubenskyi district of the ASF was confirmed.
 

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