12 thousand pigs are liquidated at the Cherkizovo enterprise in the Tambov region due to ASF

An outbreak of a dangerous disease has been identified at the fattening production site of OOO Cherkizovo-Svinovodstvo in the Bondarsky District of the Tambov Region. Three round-the-clock veterinary-police posts prevent the export of pigs and products from the focus of infection and the first threatened zone.

12 thousand pigs are liquidated at the Cherkizovo enterprise in the Tambov region due to ASF

It includes eight settlements: the villages of Grazhdanovka, Korovino, Kurovshchina, Maksimovka, Usovo, Chernavka, Shilovo and the village of Sovetsky. Veterinarians carry out house-to-house visits in this area and keep a stock of pigs.

According to the regional administration, a decree is being prepared to alienate pigs on the territory of the Bondarsky district. However, without waiting for him, the enterprise began to carry out a set of preparatory measures to organize the slaughter and burning of the livestock - 12 thousand pigs.

How the ASF virus got to the feedlot is being investigated by the Russian MIA Administration for the Tambov Region.

A month ago, an outbreak of ASF was recorded at the enterprise of another of the largest manufacturers in Russia - the Miratorg company. About 10 thousand pigs were killed there.

SOURCE: Sfera FM