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ASF detected on pig farm in Estonia’s Laane County

BC, Tallinn, 20.09.2017.Print version
The Estonian Food and Veterinary Board (VTA) has diagnosed African swine fever (ASF) in pigs on a farm with 6,800 pigs belonging to Linnamae Peekon OU in the territory of the Laane-Nigula rural municipality in Laane County, informs LETA/BNS.

The veterinary watchdog got a call on Monday morning saying that increased mortality had been detected on the farm. The previous time VTA examined the farm for ASF was at the end of August and no breaches in biosecurity were detected at the time.

 

On Tuesday morning VTA lab confirmed that ASF was on the farm, after which the farm was quarantined.

 

An epidemiological expertise is being carried out on the farm to find out how the virus reached the farm. In addition, the pigs are to be killed and the carcasses disposed of by AS Vireen.

 

ASF is widely spread in Estonia's neighboring countries. By today the virus has reached 75 Polish farms as well as eight Lithuanian farms, including a farm with 25,000 pigs. In Latvia six cases of ASF in domestic pigs have been registered this year, while in Estonia it has been detected on three farms this year.






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