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Significant increase in ASF outbreaks in the EU, Ukraine and Russia in 2015

2015 ends with a significant increase in cases of African swine fever (ASF) in the European Union.

26 January 2016
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2015 ends with a significant increase in cases of African swine fever (ASF) in the European Union. While a total of 254 outbreaks —214 in wild boars and 40 in domestic pigs— were confirmed during 2014 in the EU, 2015 ended with a total of 1,589 outbreaks (1,547 in wild boars and 42 in pigs). If we add the cases in Ukraine and Russia, the total number of confirmed outbreaks goes up to 1,719, 93 of them in domestic pigs.

These are the outbreaks confirmed to the OIE by the various affected countries in Europe:

Country Total number of outbreaks Outbreaks in wild boars Outbreaks in pigs Wild boar cases Pig cases
Estonia 670 652 18 923 71
Lithuania 120 107 13 128 18
Poland 53 52 1 83 5
Latvia 746 736 10 1026 37
Ukraine 39 35 4 6 437
Russia 91 44 47 184 1419

 

ASF cases 2015

 Fig. 1 Monitoring of ASF outbreaks confirmed by the OIE in 2015.

January 2016 / 3tres3 Editorial from OIE data.
http://www.oie.org

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