As of: November 16, 2021 00:08
The first case of African swine fever (ASF) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is now official. The National Reference Laboratory – the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) – has detected the disease, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday evening.
The ASP appeared for the first time in a domestic pig population in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The State Ministry of Agriculture had previously announced that several animals had died in a pig fattening facility with several thousand animals in the Rostock district, and a test had suggested that they might have been infected with the ASF pathogen. This suspicion has now been confirmed. According to the information, the measures of the Swine Fever Ordinance are now taking effect in the responsibility of the federal states: Among other things, the local authority must now order that all animals in the herd are killed and harmlessly disposed of.
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Backhaus gives press conference today
This morning, Agriculture Minister Till Backhaus (SPD) wants to explain how to proceed at a press conference. There could also be further restrictions on the export of pork. The prices for pork are already in the basement. After the first cases of swine fever in Germany, exports to important sales markets in Asia collapsed abruptly – for pork from all over Germany. It was agreed with some states that the import ban only applies to meat from the affected German regions.
First performed in Brandenburg and Saxony
African swine fever broke out in Germany for the first time in September last year, in Brandenburg. Saxony is now also affected. Animal disease is a serious viral infection. Only wild and domestic pigs get sick. The disease is usually fatal. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had tried to arm itself against the virus with protective fences on the border with Poland. The virus has been rampant in Eastern Europe for a long time.
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