Another swine fever outbreak reported in Ukraine

As reported, lab tests have confirmed that pigs from a farm at a Rivne region's Horodyshche-based Correctional Colony No.96 were infected, the regulator said.

However, the agency does not specify the number of infected animals.

Measures to contain and prevent the spread of the ASF pathogen are being taken.

Read alsoBelarus limits pork imports from Ukraine's Zhytomyr region because of ASFAccording to open source data, 140 ASF cases have been reported in Ukraine since the beginning of 2017. In total, 288 ASF outbreaks had been registered in 24 Ukrainian regions since 2012, as of December 6, 2017.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine's veterinary experts reported 41 ASF cases in the second half of 2017 (H2), which was almost a third less than in H2 2016 and H1 2017.

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