Poland: Four new ASF outbreaks throughout the country
Recent outbreaks have been confirmed in several provinces.
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Recent outbreaks have been confirmed in several provinces.
The vast majority of outbreaks involved farms that kept a small number of pigs.
To date, 31 outbreaks have occurred in domestic pigs, some of them located in areas where the disease had not been detected before.
The past month has been fraught with ASF outbreaks in pigs.
The main concerns related to the carcass collection process and how to overcome them.
Key biosecurity messages to move dead pigs out of the clean area of the farm to the deadstock management area prior to their treatment: external deadstock container, incinerator or hydrolysis container.
Pros and cons of rendering carcass disposal systems, alkaline hydrolysis, anaerobic digestion, gasification, and homogenization.
The first outbreak of ASF in domestic pigs in 2021 has affected a farm with nearly 16,000 animals.
Outbreaks of African swine fever have occurred for the first time in Malaysia. Domestic pigs and wild boar affected.
Biosecurity and prevention measures must take into account that as low as 5 units of ASF virus are enough to produce infection.
The affected farm had 721 animals. The most recent outbreak in domestic pigs occurred almost exactly a year ago.
Classical swine fever was confirmed on a pig farm with 5,390 head in Takasaki City.
One of the recently detected ASF outbreaks is located near Kalisz, a region where there was previously no need for ASF zoning.
In about a week, eight more ASF outbreaks have occurred in the country. One of the outbreaks affected 6,000 pigs.
The number of ASF outbreaks for the year has doubled in August, with the Lublin Voivodeship especially affected.