African swine fever in 207 localities of 12 counties, over 230k pigs put down

The African swine fever evolves in as many as 207 localities of 12 counties, with over 898 outbreaks (out of which 13 in industrial units, one in a farm's slaughterhouse and another in an A-type commercial exploitation) and 57 cases of wild boars, on Thursday announced the National Sanitary Veterinary Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA). 

Overall, 232,722 ill pigs were culled since the date the virus's presence in Romania was first confirmed, on 31 July 2017, in northern county of Satu Mare.

Satu Mare, Salaj, Bihor (northern Romania), Tulcea, Constanta, Braila, Ialomita, Galati, Calarasi, Ilfov, Buzau and Giurgiu (south-eastern Romania) are the 12 counties affected by the ASF. 

The first ASF outbreaks diagnosed since January 2018, in four households of Micula commune were eradicated on 13 August 2018 and on 24 August so was an outbreak in Sarauad, all in Satu Mare County.