A special commission has started an operation to confiscate 2,500 pigs
from private farms at the Krasnogvardeyskoye village in Stavropol
Territory, where a quarantine was introduced due to an outbreak of the
African swine flu, RIA Novosti cites the chief state veterinary
inspector of the region, Vyacheslav Marchanko.
Information on dying pigs surfaced at the ‘Nadzehda’ animal breeding
complex in Krasnogvardeyskiy District on January 6. Specialists of the
All-Russian Science Research Institute for Veterinary Virusology and
Microbiology registered the presence of the African swine flu on
January 7. An state of emergency was introduced in the district on
January 8.
Marchenko clarified that less than a thousand pigs are left to
slaughter. People bring most animals voluntarily.
The African swine flu, or Montgomery's Disease, was first registered
in South Africa in 1903. Wild and domestic pigs are prone to the
disease. The infection spreads through physical contact. The disease
is of no threat to people but cannot be vaccinated or treated. It
causes great economic damage.
