Outbreak of African swine fever recorded in Mereni village

12:56 | 11.06.2018 Category: Social

Chisinau, 11 June /MOLDPRES/- An outbreak of African swine fever was recorded in a household in the village of Mereni, Anenii Noi district. The Republican Veterinary Diagnostic Center (CRDV), through laboratory tests, confirmed late last week the domestic swine infection in a private household located 1.5 km from this locality, according to the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA).

As soon as the Anenii Noi district department of food safety was informed about this case, the specialists of the subdivision went to the spot to examine the situation, and took samples for laboratory tests and imposed restrictions on the movement of animals.

Following the confirmation by the CRDV on the outbreak, the ANSA notified the nationally competent structures as well as within the European Union, the World Organization for Animal Health and other external partners about the emergence of a new outbreak of African swine fever in Moldova.

The epidemiological investigation is ongoing and is conducted by a team of inspectors of the Anenii Noi territorial food safety subdivision, in collaboration with other relevant state institutions.

In the context of the African swine fever outbreak, ANSA through the district level territorial structures is continuously monitoring the epizootic situation to limit the spread of the disease and its eradication. At the same time, the agency asks pig owners to urgently inform them about the illness, animal dying or the detection of the wild boar corpses, and recommends compliance with the minimum biosecurity requirements.

African swine fever (PPA) is a dangerous disease without treatment or vaccine, affecting domestic and wild pig species. The PPA virus is transmitted through direct contact between animals or indirectly by feeding the animals with side containing meat or meat products originating from infected animals, insects or even utensils, clothing, contaminated feed. The PPA virus survives for 6-10 days in the fecal material of infected animals, up to 3-6 months in thermally untreated pig meat products and for many years in frozen pork. The mortality of infected animals is 100%.

(Reporter L. Grubîi, editor M. Jantovan)

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