Ukraine has decided to enter the quarantine at the borders with Russia and Belarus because of the risk of ASF

State of emergency-epidemic Commission of Ukraine proposes to make the 30-mile quarantine zone along the borders with Russia and Belarus, in order to prevent outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF), stated in the press service of the Ministry of agrarian policy and food of the country
in this area serves to completely abandon the pigs, as well as to introduce a ban on the export and trafficking of corn used for animal feed without heat treatment, reports TASS. The timing of the creation of such a quarantine area until not defined. The specialists of the Ministry of agrarian policy of Ukraine consider the strengthening of quarantine measures, for example, in the Chernihiv region, where the main factor ASF outbreaks called migration of wild boars. In January-February this year, the outbreak of ASF was registered in the region, and in 2012 - in the Zaporozhye region. Fever - a viral disease of pigs, for the first time registered in 1903 in South Africa. ASF is safe for humans, but is a dangerous disease for pigs. The meat of infected animals is subject to liquidation. Certain large outbreaks of ASF in Russia were caused by the use of kitchen waste as feed for domestic pigs in small farms. Remember, the Rosselkhoznadzor October 6, introduced time limits on production and delivery to the Russian Federation Belarusian products manufacturer in connection with the discovery of the genome of the virus of African swine fever, more than 16 tons of beef from Smolensk were returned to the neighbouring Republic, informs the press service of Rosselkhoznadzor for the Bryansk and Smolensk regions. Before Russia decided to restrict the import of products from Minsk meat packing plant because of African swine fever (ASF). October 30, the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert said that the Ministry will insist on a ban on imports of pork from Belarus because of African swine fever. Later the genome of the virus of African swine fever (ASF) was identified in the study of sausage products of JSC " Bobruisk meat processing plant in Nizhny Novgorod. In July 2014 Ukraine imposed a ban on pork imports from Russia. The reason for the ban became official message of the Rosselkhoznadzor and the data obtained diplomatic ways about that in the cities of Bryansk, Orenburg and Kursk region identified, meat products infected with African swine fever virus.


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