Lithuania records first case of African swine fever of the year

The first case of African swine fever (ASF) in a peasant farm in 2024 was identified in Lithuania. This was reported by the publication Vacaro Gines. According to the newspaper, employees of the food and veterinary service identified “a source of infection on an individual peasant farmstead in the Rokiskis region.” As a result, three pigs were slaughtered. The penetration of the virus into peasant farming was noted against the background of a significant spread of ASF in the wild among wild boars. Over the four months of 2024, 449 cases of their deaths due to this reason were identified, and for the entire 2023 - 583. Last year, the veterinary service identified outbreaks of ASF in peasant farms in the Vilkaviskis, Kalvari and Marijampole districts. Lithuania has been battling ASF outbreaks for almost 10 years. At first, problems arose only on peasant farmsteads. In 2014, the first EU case of infection was recorded in the Baltic republic at the Idavang agricultural ...