Following complaints from the pork sector, Senasa approved the new National Plan for Control and Eradication of the Disease of A.

Outbreaks of Aujeszky's Disease (AD), detected at the beginning of this year in local pig farms, raised alarms in that productive sector due to fears of its economic impact. Caused by a virus from the Herpesviridae family, it can induce reproductive failures, deaths in piglets, and a decrease in the weight gain of animals. This is what motivated the Argentine Pork Federation (FPA) to work with the National Service of Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) in the development of a sanitary plan aimed at controlling and eradicating it, which was initially expected to be released before mid-year. "We will go out to search for the virus. It is very important to identify in which areas and establishments it is in order to proceed with its sanitation and avoid the spread of the disease, which so far is controlled," indicated the Federation in May. However, its approval was delayed more than expected and the sector began to pressure to resume the conversations, within the framework of a ...