The heat again triggers cases of African swine fever in Romania

High temperatures have triggered a new spike in African swine fever in Romania, where veterinary authorities detected 50 new outbreaks of the disease in the past week, local media reported. "The heat makes the disease spread much faster." explains to Efe the president of the Association of Pork Producers of Romania, Ion Ladosi, who also attributes the rebound to the constant violations of prevention measures. According to the latest official balance of the veterinary authorities, there are currently in Romania 170 active outbreaks of the disease. This new explosion in the number of sources of infection occurs after the authorities managed to reduce it to less than one hundred at the end of June. According to the employers' association of pork meat producers, the evolution of the situation is "very worrying", and It threatens to deal a new blow to Romania's already badly punished ...