The experts received the results of a study of samples taken from five dead pigs from a farm located in the Warminsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship. In the studied samples revealed the presence of genetic material of African swine fever virus. On the farm, with 67 goals, the procedure associated with elimination of the disease that, among other things, means that the herd of pigs were killed.

This 214-I the outbreak of ASF in households since the detection in Poland African swine fever. In herds of wild boars this year are already identified 280 cases of the disease, and all of them already 3627.