The second largest pig farm from Europe hit by swine flu
The farm, located in Gropeni, Br?ila County, has a number of 140,000 pigs which will immediately be culled.
According to local media, the presence of the disease was first confirmed by a veterinarian laboratory from Br?ila and it was officialy confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory from Bucharest on Saturday.
This ASF case came after the detection of another outbreak at a pig farm in the same county with a number of 35,000 animals.
Authorities believe that the disease was transmitted through water, as both of the farms were using water for the animals from the Danube river. Dead pigs were discovered floating in the water. The authorities have not yet discovered the persons responsible for this.
So far, there were 34 outbreaks reported in Br?ila county and 30,000 pigs have been already culled.
Romanian producers will have to cull now another 200,000 pigs and it is expected that 600 people will lose their jobs because of this.
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