Romania’s biggest pig farm hit by African swine fever

The owner of the biggest pig farm in Romania, which is also the second largest in Europe, called for an assessment of damages resulting from the planned culling of 141,000 pigs located in a source of African swine fever. The manager of SC TEBU Consult Braila delayed the euthanasia of the pigs because he needs to a clear picture of the damages that will be incurred by the company, said Gicu Dragan, the director of veterinary health department, quoted by Business-Review.eu.

The African swine fever infection was confirmed in three separate pig farms from Braila county, comprising more than 35,000 pigs that will be euthanized.

“I believe that the animals in these farms got sick due to the Danube water. Farms are supplied with water from the Danube,” said Dragan, adding that pig carcasses were found in the Danube. “We killed 29,000 pigs in order to protect these farms. We focuses on land and the virus came by water,” said the official.

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