So, in laboratory studies in pathological samples, selected from domestic pigs contained in a personal subsidiary plot in the village of Yelshanka Khvalynsky municipal district of Saratov region allocated ASF virus genome.

In addition, the genetic material of ASF detected in the pathological material of dead wild boar found near the village Mizhhiria zelenohirs'ke rural settlement of Belogorskiy district of Crimea.

"Currently disadvantaged points specialists work gosvetsluzhbe Saratov region and the Republic of Crimea under the control of the territorial administrations of the Rosselkhoznadzor. Activities are conducted in accordance with the veterinary rules for the implementation of preventive, diagnostic, restrictive and other events, establishment and abolition of quarantine and other restrictions directed on prevention of distribution and elimination of outbreaks of African swine fever", — stated in the message.

African swine fever — a contagious viral disease of pigs that are particularly dangerous. For man, the ASF is not dangerous, but causes serious damage to the agricultural sector, as it does not give in to treatment and vaccinal prevention among animals. To stop the spread of the disease can only strict quarantine measures.