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In order to focus animal health control measures and to prevent the spread of African swine fever is necessary to replace the Annex to Implementing Decision 2014/178/EU to include the relevant areas of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

After several months without the detection of the disease in the country, the OIE has reported an outbreak of African swine fever in Ukraine.

This is the first outbreak of the disease since 1996.

Pathogen-specific surveillance for ASF/FMD during this 12 month pilot will be based on the collection of whole blood samples (ASF) and oral swabs (FMD) from domestic swine with higher risk of ASF and/or FMD exposure than the average swine.

We present a summary of the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks that have been notified by the European Union countries to the OIE in 2014: 56 in wild boar, 33 in backyard farms and 2 in comercial farms.

We present a summary of the trickle of ASF cases that have appeared in Russia during the last months.

The Animal Health Service of Sacer has detected two cases of African swine fever during routine monitorings.

The outbreak has been declared in a backyard farm with only one pig located in Gródek, district of Bialystok, province of Podlasie.

A dead pig (a 5-month-old male showing clinical signs similar to African swine fever) was delivered to the National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute from a backyard farm (with 2 pigs).

The OIE has informed about the confirmation of a total of 22 new ASF outbreaks in Latvia that affect both wild boars and domestic pigs.

Two new cases of ASF have been detected in wild boars in Poland, near the border with Belarus.

The Veterinary Inspection Service intensifies its activities after the detection of dead and buried animals without a previous notification.

After a period of four days when the country's borders were closed to Lithuanian pork products, the Veterinary and Food Board lifted the ban.

Yesterday in Vilnius, Baltic agriculture ministers discussed the spread of African swine fever and decided to draft an action plan by August 15 and putting in a request to the European Commission for funding.

A total of 19,411 pigs of different ages are kept in this farm.