On Saturday, August 25 in Romania African swine fever was recorded on the largest farm in the country, which is the second largest in Europe - in the town of Gropeni, the district of Braila, with more than 140,000 pigs. All animals on the farm will be slaughtered, MEDIAFAX reported according to pigua.info.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a warning that an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in China could spread to neighboring regions and countries. This was reported by the press office of the Secretary-General of the World Organization, UNN reported.
According to information from the main departments of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Poltava, Sumy and Cherkasy regions, from 16.08.2018 to 22.08.2018, 5 cases of African swine fever were recorded.
In the Oleshky district of the Kherson region laboratory studies have confirmed two epiozootic foci of African swine fever. According to the Oleshky Regional State Administration, on August 13, the meetings of the Emergency Situations Commission were held in the Regional State Administration, where, according to the classification criteria, the event was declared an emergency, agronews.ua reported.
The first two outbreaks of the virus were confirmed in the Podkarpackie voivodeship. By this time, ASF spread on the territory of only four voivodships: Podlaskie, Mazowieckie, Lubelskie and Warminsko-Mazurskie, pigua.info reported.
The information about the ASF case at SE “Dekabrysty experimental farm” was confirmed by the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (Poltava region, Myrhorod district). The virus was recorded on both sites - the sow house and the fattening department, pigua.info reported.
The epizootic situation of the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in Europe remains difficult. The tendency to deterioration is observed during 2018, and especially according to the results of July of this year, pigua.info reported.
According to the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, new cases of African swine fever were found in Poltava and Kherson regions.
The first case of African swine fever in China was recorded near Shenyang, Liaoning Province (the northern region, which is near North Korea). The farm kept 383 pigs, pigua.info reported.