Russia blames Georgia for swine flue

Russia’s chief sanitary doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, said on Monday the
recent outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) in South Russia
was a result of “economic subversion” by Georgia, RIA-Novosti reports.
“ASFV came to us from Georgia. It first appeared in Ossetia, and then
spread to the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories. [The outbreak]
shows signs of being an artificially-created situation. This is an act
of economic subversion that the Krasnodar Territory has been unable to
tackle for three years,” RIA-Novosti quotes Onishchenko.

African swine fever, or Montgomery's disease, was first reported in
Africa in 1903. Both domestic and wild animals can become infected
when they come into contact with sick animals. The virus does not
affect humans.