Over 400 pigs die over outbreak of African swine fever in Chernivtsi region

Head of the Ukrainian State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service's Main Department in Chernivtsi region Anzhela Kosovan says an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) has been reported at the Kotelevo farming enterprise in the village under the same name in Chernivtsi region's Dnistrovskyi district.

Read alsoAlmost 4,000 pigs put down due to African swine fever outbreak in UkraineIn particular, over 400 pigs, including 100 sows and 320 piglet, died on April 11-13, she told UNIAN on April 14.

According to Kosovan, laboratory tests have established that African swine fever was the cause of their death.

As a result, 21,000 pigs will have to be destroyed in the village, she added.

In this regard, the State Extraordinary Anti-Epizootic Commission held a special meeting on Wednesday morning. It was decided to determine the pig farm as an epizootic center of African swine fever and announce a quarantine there. In addition, the commission designated the village of Koteleve and a three-kilometer area around it as a quarantine zone.

Memo

• African swine fever (Montgomery disease) is a contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs.
• The disease bears no threat to humans. The virus is transmitted by direct contact between sick and healthy animals, through pork products, and also transmitted by ticks and mechanically (by vehicles during transportation of people and animals).
• There are no vaccines against the virus.
• Almost all infected pigs die. The virus is destroyed by heating to extremely high temperatures.