Kuban scientist tells whether it is possible to eat pork during the ASF outbreak

"The African swine fever virus dies at a temperature of +78 degrees. Therefore, heat-treated MEAT is safe for humans. At the same time, the virus does not die when frozen or rotting. ASF causes serious economic damage to agriculture, which is why meat is removed from stores and then burned - to destroy foci of infection," explains Grigory Komlatsky.

African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral disease of pigs that occurs in an acute form. it begins with fever and ends with necrosis of internal organs. Animals that have contracted ASF usually die within five days of infection. On

September 8, meat by-products with African swine fever virus DNA were found in a store on Uralskaya Street in Krasnodar. As a result, 154.3 kg of pork products were destroyed. Its manufacturer turned out to be OOO TD Kushchevsky. On September 6, the genetic material of the African swine fever virus was found in the offal of one of the retail stores in Timashevsk. The outlet was closed.

Four outbreaks of African swine fever have already been discovered in Kuban. The virus was detected on the territory of the Impuls farm in the Kushchevsky district, the STF of Brigade No. 5 within the boundaries of the land use plan of ZAO Pobeda of the AO firm Agrokompleks im. N. I. Tkachev in the Bryukhovetsky district and on the farm of ZAO Novosergievskoye, on the territory of the Delimit pig-breeding complex, owned by AO Kubansky Bacon. In total, more than 12 thousand pigs will be destroyed in the region.