September 7, 2007

Russia's Stavropol region culls 252 pigs over swine fever

Two hundred and fifty two pigs have been killed and burnt in the village of Shturm in the southern Stavropol region because they had been infected with classic swine fever, Russia's s emergencies ministry announced Thursday (September 6).

The first cases were registered August 28 on a pig farm in the village and subsequently a local laboratory confirmed the presence of the disease in the infected animals.

The remaining 227 pigs on the farm have been vaccinated and the farm disinfected. The ministry said there had been no new cases registered in the last three days.

An outbreak of classic swine fever was reported in early May in the neighbouring Volgograd region, where 51 pigs died on a private holding in the village of Gorodishche.