Food Safety Service: there is no African swine fever in Armenia
30.01.2020,
13:55
The head of Armenia's State Food Safety Service Georgy Avetisyan denied today media stories claiming there was an outbreak of African swine fever in the country.
YEREVAN, January 30. /ARKA/. The head of Armenia's State Food Safety Service Georgy Avetisyan denied today media stories claiming there was an outbreak of African swine fever in the country. “There is no African swine fever in the country,” he said to Novosti Armenia news agency.
According to Avetisyan, this disease can only be diagnosed by laboratory tests, while no such data have been reported.
The former head of the State Food Safety Service Grigor Grigoryan had told a press conference the day before that farmers were suffering serious losses due to the African swine fever and that mass mortality of pigs was reported by various sources. He had said that the government must pay compensation to farmers.
The mass death of pigs in the country was recorded on June 6, 2019 in the Kornidzor community of the Syunik region. One resident reported that out of 400 pigs, only 10 animals remained in the community. She suggested that the cause of death was the African swine fever that was common in other nearby villages.
On June 12, Anush Harutyunyan, spokeswoman for the Food Safety Services, told Novosti Armenia that the death of pigs in the Syunik region was most likely due to a feed infection. She said that the results of laboratory tests showed that it had anaerobic infection, as well as salmonella. Most likely, according to her estimates, the disease of pigs was caused by bacteria in the feed.
African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of pigs characterized by fever, skin cyanosis and extensive hemorrhages in the internal organs. For humans, African swine fever is not dangerous. -0-
According to Avetisyan, this disease can only be diagnosed by laboratory tests, while no such data have been reported.
The former head of the State Food Safety Service Grigor Grigoryan had told a press conference the day before that farmers were suffering serious losses due to the African swine fever and that mass mortality of pigs was reported by various sources. He had said that the government must pay compensation to farmers.
The mass death of pigs in the country was recorded on June 6, 2019 in the Kornidzor community of the Syunik region. One resident reported that out of 400 pigs, only 10 animals remained in the community. She suggested that the cause of death was the African swine fever that was common in other nearby villages.
On June 12, Anush Harutyunyan, spokeswoman for the Food Safety Services, told Novosti Armenia that the death of pigs in the Syunik region was most likely due to a feed infection. She said that the results of laboratory tests showed that it had anaerobic infection, as well as salmonella. Most likely, according to her estimates, the disease of pigs was caused by bacteria in the feed.
African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of pigs characterized by fever, skin cyanosis and extensive hemorrhages in the internal organs. For humans, African swine fever is not dangerous. -0-
