The Food and Veterinary Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia announced that a new case of African swine fever has been confirmed, MIA reported.

According to the Veterinary Institute at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the disease was registered in the village of Moštitsa, municipality of Makedonska Kamenitsa, in a farm with an extensive way of rearing pigs.

The AHV has already notified pig farmers about the new case of African plague. 

After a suspicion of the disease was reported, the farm was checked by inspectors of the veterinary agency, and after laboratory examination of the samples taken from two dead pigs, the disease was confirmed.

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At the farm, all necessary measures have been taken to destroy the virus and an epidemiological study is in progress to establish the causative agent, said the director of AHV Nikolche Babovski.

The agency ordered the initiation of control and precautionary measures to suppress and control the disease in the high-risk area (all municipalities along the border with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Serbia), in the infected area and the entire territory of the Republic of North Macedonia. 

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the European Commission have been officially notified by AHV about the emergence of a new outbreak of African swine fever, noted Babowski.

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