Russia: ASF outbreaks continue

ASF was also revealed in the Volgograd Regional Veterinary Laboratory in pathological material, sampled from two dead wild boars from the island Sarpa of the Kirov district of Volgograd.

To stop the disease from spreading, prevention measures are carried out Lenin, Svetloyarskom and Sredneahtubinskom municipal districts of the Volgograd Region. A quarantine on the island Sarpa was also introduced, according to Rosselkhoznadzor.

A similar outbreak among wild boars has been recorded in the Tver region. Seven dead boars were found in Holoholenskogo rural settlement, two miles west from the village Natives – where about 10 thousand pigs are located.

In the Penal Colony number 5 of Volsky District, Saratov region another outbreak of ASF was discovered. Following the discovery, management of correctional institutions veterinary services performed special sanitary-epidemiological measures. Animal corpses were burned and buried, and the rest of the  livestock – about 151 animals – were eliminated. Representatives of Rosselkhoznadzor last week issued a special declaration, which states that the most susceptible animals should be contained “in private farms and in the households of uniformed services.”