Romania

The second largest pig farm from Europe hit by swine flu

Safety & Legislation

Romanian authorities have detected another African swine fever outbreak this time at the biggest pig farm in the country and the second largest from Europe.

Posted on Aug 27 ,11:57

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.

 NEWSLETTER - Stay informed with the latest news!

Comments





Similar articles

INTERNATIONAL

JBS launches English school in Australia to prepare Brazilians for international careers

Bringing the course in-house allows for closer monitoring of student performance and a better wor...


Read more Read more
GERMANY

Germany: New case of African swine fever in wild boar in the Görlitz district

In Saxony, another case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a dead wild boar in th...


Read more Read more
BRAZIL

Ministry of Agriculture establishes working group to strengthen sustainability in the Brazilian beef supply chain

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) established through Ordinance No. 898, the Susta...


Read more Read more
Websolutions by Angular Software and SpiderClass