date:Jul 27, 2012
as well as equipment used for the maintenance, slaughter and butchering of pigs.
There have been nine registered outbreaks of ASF in Russia in the past two weeks, one of which was the largest in the history of the disease in the country. On 24 July, an outbreak of ASF was detected in the Zavolzhsky district, where there are currently 155,500 heads of pigs. Experts from the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) have implemented emergency steps