Category African swine fever

Nearly 100,000 pigs will be culled after an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak was detected at one of Ukraine’s biggest pig farms, the Ukrainian state food safety service said on Wednesday. This outbreak affects 1.6% of Ukraine’s pig herd and…

Bulgaria has detected another outbreak of African swine fever at a pig breeding farm near the north eastern city of Ruse, after the deadly virus was discovered earlier this month, the food safety agency said on Wednesday. That was the…

Big losses unprecedented, the budget is exhausted The latest statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development show that, until now, cholera pig in Africa (DTLCP) has been discharged at 5,422 communes, 513 districts of 62 provinces and cities;…

Laos has reported its first cases of African swine fever (ASF), confirming outbreaks in the southern province of Saravane, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. The southeast Asian country reported seven outbreaks of ASF in…

Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an oubreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far to 1.7 million, or 5% of the country’s herd, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.…

China has been one of the worst nations affected by the disease China has been one of the worst nations affected by the disease China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has revealed that it has culled 916,000 pigs since…

To prevent the further spread of the African swine fever killed 140 000 pigs on a Romanian jättefarm. Archive picture. PHOTO: MONIKA GUSTAFSSON In the village of Eastern Europe Romania Gropeni has second-largest pig farmers their activities on three farms.…