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  • Ukraine: African swine plague approaching the peninsula

    Source: http://1k.com.ua/252/details/8/6

    Google translation from Russian

    African swine plague approaching the peninsula
    Natal YAKIMOVA /

    [1K] social protection:: African swine plague approaching the peninsula from all the list of diseases home zhivnosti general public is familiar only with avian influenza, which at one time so devastated roost, that the press even dubbed ?chicken plague?. And now Ukraine is threatened by this plague - an African. It is deadly for pigs, but if foci appear on the peninsula, the effects krymchan not please: the whole pig will nesladko. A pork on the peninsula, as you know, the most popular after the chicken meat.

    The virus is moving to the border

    In mid-October in the Soviet Stavropol region of the Russian Federation occurred case pigs - suddenly died just 117 ?pyatachkov?, nearly a quarter of all livestock on the farm. Soon mysterious illness moved into private yards, and there also began to claim the lives of animals. Culprit staff vetsluzhby found: he was an African swine plague - one of the worst agricultural disease.
    Center Stavropol region, where African plague broke out, is about 900 - 1000 km from the Crimea. But the Russians were unable to reliably isolate the hearth, and the disease a week later was found in two areas, then it moved in the Krasnodar region - now the African plague of the peninsula by a total 400 - 500 km, it is so close. Of course, the Crimean specialists vetsluzhby very'd like to hope that Russian colleagues did cope with the disease on its territory and not podpustyat it even closer to the border. But prepare yourself to the fact that Crimea could face it.

    Deadly and resistant

    Deputy Chief GU Veterinary Medicine in Crimea Ivan Gurenko said ?1K?, that for humans the disease does not pose a safety hazard, just sick pigs - and wild and domestic. But the virus that causes African plague, so persistent that the animal organism does not produce antibodies - and thus no immunity. If the infected pig will survive - and hundreds of sow after the plague only 2 - 3 survive and remain a long time virusonositelyami. Medicines against the disease no vaccine specialists have developed, but it raises during chronic disease, as prepared from weakened strains, and its introduction svine can cause all the same African plague. And if the animal and escape, there will always be virusonositelem. Moving a mumps anywhere immediately lead to the emergence of a new hotbed of the disease, with ?advanced? virus through vaccination. As a result, in general, you can get a new form of this deadly disease.
    ?Treatment of African swine fever in general is prohibited - explained Ivan Gurenko. - This is such a feature of the virus as high kontaginoznost: svine patient does not necessarily communicate with another to infect it. Vector cause could be anything - from the piece of litter or manure carried on the wheels or shoes, to feed. A cat, dog or rooster, visited a number of sick pigs, too, become carriers, although not themselves sick. The owner of pestilential animal into the neighboring yard, where pigs can infect them. In Italy, was the case when the airport nationals of a country where pockets of African swine fever, kept in hand luggage sandwiches with sausage, which included pork - and the epidemic broke out. Here is how resistant virus of African plague: even with pork stirrer process remains viable ?.

    If Piggy zaskuchali

    Against the backdrop of other regions of Crimea, of course, difficult to identify the leader of pigs - here in the farms of all forms of ownership are about 180 thousand of animals each year on the peninsula produces about 3.5 tonnes of pork (in Ukraine 168 thousand tons). But all the same every year livestock ?pyatachkov? in increased autonomy, although there are still many pigs were imported from neighboring regions (Kherson, Mykolayiv).
    Large farms where pigs are held in Crimea, a little: mainly pigs focused on private farmsteads, they are also farmers. Therefore, in the context of the Crimean outbreak of plague on African farms - too bad, but when the disease moved to the farmstead - is already a catastrophe, because much more difficult to isolate flashpoint. The economic impact of the disease everyone associated with agriculture, did not please: breeding pigs, where pockets have been identified, banned for a year, the first quarantine zone (it surrounds the place of localization virus) - six months.
    Do not notice the animal illnesses African plague, it is not possible. As Ivan Gurenko, it is immediately evident in his behavior. In addition, the speed with which the virus kosit pigs - for 3 - 4 days manifested obvious signs of illness, should alert the owner. But even if the owner had zabit ?suspicious? mumps, then cutting carcasses, shows that with the animal is not all right: leather with lividity tinge, dark-red spots and hemorrhages, the same shade of acquiring oral mucous membrane and conjunctival eye, heart flabby muscle, it also may include hemorrhages, as in increased nabuhshih liver and kidneys. Such meat, assured Ivan Gurenko, under any circumstances can not get to markets or shops, carcasses with visible signs of illness should be destroyed on site in accordance with the Veterinary-sanitary requirements.

    The most stringent quarantine

    It is important to immediately when the first signs of ill pigs to report the incident to experts, not to try to cope alone. By the way, for trying to conceal the loss or delay a presentation on its strict liability for the owner of animals, and for promorgavshego beginning of epizootic specialist.

    For many krymchan loss of even a few pigs seems catastrophe, so they can try to keep silent about their suspicions. But it must be understood: only veterinarians can diagnose the case, and the sooner will be diagnosed, the less will be lost. If that is indeed the African swine plague, the salvation of it not, and to prevent its victorious march across the Crimea can only strict quarantine. All animals in hearth disease - and patients, and suspected it - must be destroyed. Dysfunctional para animal to be karantinirovaniyu, the territory entered the permit regime, limiting the movement of all that related to the livestock, from feed to the straw. If the disease did out of the border zone isolation - and this may well happen, of the scourge of the district scale, it becomes a republic, all of autonomy could eventually be quarantined.

    Ukraine has never recorded cases of African swine fever, in 1978, it happened with neighbors, in the Odessa region. On the territory of autonomy from 1993 to 1995 was a classic plague - in Bahchisarayskom, Dzhankoyskom and Krasnoperekopskom areas. From classical plague is salvation - a vaccine, which necessarily provides animals and farms, and private farmstead. But this immunity does not help with infected animals African plague, it they still die.

    It is hoped that a dangerous virus did not cross the border and did not get to the Crimea. But if the distance between the centers of African plague, and the peninsula will be reduced and the virus is very close to us, Crimean svinovodam will recommend to quickly turn their grunt property or canned meat products.
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