In the Perm Territory, looking for the source of the spread of swine fever

The source of the outbreak of African swine fever in the Perm region, recorded last week, could be food waste. Farmers took them in the canteen of the Suvorov Military School, said Maxim Tsukanov , deputy HEAD of the State Veterinary Supervision Department of ROSSELKHOZNADZOR .

“On Monday, ASF was confirmed in the Sverdlovsk region, then in the Perm region. Owners of household plots said that they fed pigs with food waste. In the Sverdlovsk region, waste was taken from the canteen of a military unit, in Perm - waste from the canteen of the Suvorov Military School. Food waste could cause ASF infection in pigs,” Tsukanov said. According to him, a carrier company has already been established, supplying food products to both the military unit and the military school.

Updated at 12:05 pm: A study of samples of pig products taken in the Perm Territory gave a negative result, the Rosselkhoznadzor reported.

The fact that in the Perm region for the first time recorded infection of livestock with African swine fever, it became known on 30 September. The outbreak occurred in a private courtyard of the village of Karabai, Krasnokamsk district. Governor Dmitry Makhonin signed a decree on the establishment of quarantine in territories located in the risk zone.