Three pigs died in Svitanok LLC (Bobrovytsia district of Chernihiv region).

According to a report of Ukraine's State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Rights Protection, African swine fever (ASF) was diagnosed during the examination of the selected samples of biological material of the pigs.

According to preliminary information, the farm keeps 400 pigs.

Measures are being taken to localize the disease on the site of the outbreak and prevent the spread of ASF pathogens.

The ASF virus is the causative agent of ASF. The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in pigs, but persistently infects its natural hosts, warthogs, bush pigs and soft ticks of the Ornithodoros genus, without any visible symptoms. There is currently no vaccine against ASF.