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African swine fever reported in Ukraine

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

African swine fever (ASF), a devastating infectious disease of pigs, has been found in northern Ukraine, the country's Agriculture Minister Olexiy Pavlenko said here on Friday.

"We have registered a case of the ASF virus in the wildlife reserve 'Zalesie' in Kiev region," Pavlenko said, while speaking at the at selector meeting in the ministry.

The minister said that the viral disease, which is harmless to people but lethal to pigs, was registered when a wild boar infected with the virus was found dead in the territory of the "Zalesie" reserve, 40 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital.

The country's State Food and Veterinary Service is taking measures to prevent spread of the disease, Pavlenko said, adding that quarantine procedures are underway not only in Kiev region, but also in three other northern regions bordering it.

The first case of ASF was detected in Ukraine in August 2012, when dozens of domestic pigs died in a private farm in the southern Zaporozhe region. Endi