Australia, Armenia, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, the Philippines and Japan have banned imports of Swedish pork due to an outbreak of African swine flu in wild boars in Sweden. RIA NewsQuote from Agence France Presse (AFP).
“Following the recent outbreak of African swine flu among wild boars in the Scandinavian country, some countries have blocked imports of Swedish pork,” the Swedish Meat Industry Association told the agency.
On September 6, it was recorded that African plague was detected in the bodies of a large number of wild boars, 145 kilometers northwest of Stockholm. Authorities restricted human access to 1,000 square kilometers of natural areas around the area where the infected wild boars were found. However, the disease is not dangerous to humans.
According to country officials, the disease was brought to Sweden as a result of human activities, not animals.
Magnus Dart, director general of the Swedish Meat Industry Association, told the agency that the Swedish pork industry’s annual loss from the import ban was estimated at 50 million kroner ($4.5 million).
September 6 on products of one of the stores in the Krasnodar region discovered Genetic material of African swine fever virus.
Previously in the Rostov region introduced State of emergency due to African swine fever.