African plague is approaching the Orenburg region

In neighboring regions in the Orenburg region, outbreaks of a dangerous virus have been recorded. Farms are losing money.

Pigs are dying in the Chelyabinsk, Samara regions and Bashkortostan. Both wild and domestic. This was reported in the Orenburg department of ROSSELKHOZNADZOR, calling the situation in RUSSIA tense.

Animals are mowed down by the African swine fever virus. For humans, it is not dangerous, but for pig farms it is detrimental. In total, 30 outbreaks of ASF have been recorded in Russia.

Of these, 11 fall on domestic pigs, and 19 on wild ones, the department clarifies. Quarantined places. On the territory of the Orenburg region, the ASF virus has not yet been detected. Outbreaks of the disease in the region were recorded last fall.