Outbreak of African Swine Fever reported in Vidin

The worrying situation in the country because of the spread of African Swine Fever remains. A new outbreak of African swine fever was found in Vidin (Nortehrn Bulgaria), where a domestic pig in the Roma neighbourhood died. This was announced by the Minister of Agriculture Desislava Taneva on July 29. In the 3-kilometre zone. there is a pig farm with 4,000 pigs.

A meeing of the epizootic council took place at the Council of Ministers. It was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev, Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov, the Chairperson of the Food Safety Agency.

New additional measures were outlined to combat African Swine Fever.

So far, there have been three outbreaks in industrial farms, 25 outbreaks in domestic farms and 20 wild boars died from African Swine Fever. The first measure is the full mobilisation of all slaughterhouses in Bulgaria. They are 110 In total, 67 of which are for pig slaughter only. Veterinarians and police will closely monitor their work.

The Minister of Agriculture explained that there were 65 pig farms in Bulgaria with the relevant levels of biosecurity measures. African Swine Fever was found in 3 of these industrial farms. For all others, including those in southern Bulgaria, a 20-kilometre sanitary zone was determined by the regional epiizootic commissions. No back-yard pig breeding will be allowed in the 20-km sanitary zones, Taneva said.

Tomislav Donchev, Deputy Prime Minister said that no measure, even if it is based on the entire state resource, cannot be effective if there is no support from the people. We have a problem with adequate cooperation and empathy on the part of the citizens, he added.

Desislava Taneva denied that there is resistance against the work of vets in the pig farm in the village of Golyamo Vranovo, Rousse area, where the latest outbreak of ASF was identified. On the contrary, she said, there is full co-operation.

He urged people and mayors to assist the authorities. He said that the meat of the pigs that were slaughtered should be subjected to a heat treatment of over 80 degrees because the virus is destroyed above this temperature. If the meat is frozen, the virus can continue to be active after thawing.

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