New outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) detected in the Crimea, Chuvashia, Volgograd and Kaliningrad regions. Virus detected in the carcasses of domestic pigs, wild boar, and ready for selling meat products, said on Monday on the website of the Rosselkhoznadzor.

ASF, a viral disease affecting wild boars and domestic pigs. In the acute form kills 100% of affected animals, the virus-the plague pathogen is resistant to high temperatures for a long time is retained in carcasses and soil. The first outbreak of ASF was registered in 2007. For humans, the disease is not dangerous.

"The Federal service for veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance informs about registration of the ASF on the territory of the Republic of Crimea, the Chuvash Republic, Volgograd and Kaliningrad regions. <...> In dysfunctional items specialists work gosvetsluzhbe", - stated in the message.

It is clarified that twice in recent days, the virus detected in the samples taken from dead wild boars: near the town of Sudak in the Crimea and on the territory of the local forestry Poreckogo KU "Shumerlinskiy forestry" of the Chuvash Republic. In Kaliningrad it is detected in samples taken from domestic pigs from a personal services of a resident of Kaliningrad.

Also the genetic material of the virus was found in ham and smoked sausage, which was delivered from the enterprise for slaughter and processing of livestock products in the farm Lobakin Surovikinsky area of the Volgograd region.

Earlier it was reported that the Rosselkhoznadzor experts consider ineffective efforts to combat the spread of ASF authorities in the Volgograd region, where since the beginning of the year revealed more than 20 foci of the virus. In the Kaliningrad region is also not the first outbreak of the virus this year, from November 10 Belarus has restricted the import of live pigs, zoo and circus animals susceptible species, meat of pork (including wild boar) from this region. The first outbreaks in the Crimea were recorded in January 2016, in 2017 the number of pigs in the Republic will decrease by 10.5 million at 7.6%. Difficult situation with ASF remains in the Chuvash Republic.