African swine fever case recorded in Kharkiv region

14:22, 12.09.2016 1 min read

One pig died on September 10 in a household of Kharkiv National Academy of National Guard of Ukraine in Verkhnia Pysarivka.

The press service of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumers' Rights Protection of Ukraine reported on Monday that the examination of the selected samples of biological material diagnosed ASF.

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.