Romania: Outbreak of swine fever kills 20,000 pigs

[hawkeye]

Outbreak of swine fever kills 20,000 pigs in Romania
TIMISOARA (AP) ? An outbreak of swine fever at a Romanian farm belonging to the world?s largest pork processor has killed 20,000 pigs, officials said Saturday. Swine fever is a viral disease that is fatal to pigs but has no known effect on people. The sickened swine were found at a farm in the southwestern village of Cenei, 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Timisoara, said Ioan Jeleriu, who heads the Veterinary Heath Authority in Timis county, home to many of Romania?s pig farms. Authorities have shut down other farms in the region until inspections of their pigs are carried out. ?All the farms are blocked; no pigs are going in or coming out until we determine the health status of every farm,? Jeleriu said.

[Niko]

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Source ::: AFP BUCHAREST ? Eleven unauthorised pig farms belonging to US company Smithfield in Romania are to be shut down following an outbreak of swine fever, the head of the national sanitary and veterinary authority said yesterday.


The agency will also send a veterinarian to all of Smithfield's 25 farms in western Timis to monitor whether sanitary standards were being respected and to oversee the killing of some 40,000 pigs from the two farms where the outbreak occurred, ANSVSA director Radu Roatis said. Veterinary authorities found this week that 11 Smithfield farms "revised from 10 initially-had not been authorised to operate in Romania.


Swine fever was detected during the week in two farms in western Timis county belonging to the company.


Roatis also criticised the local veterinary authorities for failing to report the deaths of several hundreds pigs recently.

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=August2007&file=World_News200708111311.xml

[Treyfish]

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Romania concerned with swine fever outbreak

BUCHAREST, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Romania is concerned with finding a solution for the swine fever outbreak in the Smithfield farms in the western part of the country, Agriculture Minister Decebal Traian Remes said on Monday.
"We have a difficult problem and we must find a solution for it," the minister told a press conference.
The authorities were accused of being overwhelmed with the situation in Timis, where two contagion centers were found in early August. So far, Romania had swine fever cases only in the households of the population, not in large farms.
"We have a good legislation, but we haven't put into practice," Remes said.
President of National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority Radu Roatis said that the slaughter of the 37,000 pigs in the two farms could start on Monday, all procedures being approved.
"I believe the slaughter by shooting will last 20 days," said Roatis, adding that Romania has no other equipment and EU countries need it after the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
The two officials met on Monday officials with the U.S. embassy to hold talks about the situation in Timis, as Smithfield is a U.S. company.
The veterinary authorities confirmed the existence of two contagion centers of swine fever in Cenei and Iglis localities two weeks ago. Of the 33 farms owned by Smithfield in Romania, only 11 were functioning legally, the rest lacked veterinary and environment authorizations. There are 486,000 pigs in Smithfield farms. Smithfield is the leading pork meat at world level with a 11.9 billion dollar turnover last year. The company has farms with 20 million pigs worldwide. The US company operates on the Romanian market since 2004, after purchasing the local Comtim farm in Timisoara.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/14/content_6526490.htm

[Niko]

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Another outbreak of swine fever found on Romanian farm<o:p></o:p>

Published: Aug 23, 2007 11:35 AM
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It was the third outbreak in the country in recent weeks and the second on a farm owned by the Smithfield, Va.-based company. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Smithfield</st1:place></st1:city> also owns the world's largest slaughterhouse, located in Tar Heel, N.C.
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The disease was found this week on a farm in Igris, about 40 miles west of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Timisoara</st1:place></st1:city> near the Hungarian border. The farm has 15,000 pigs. Around 18,000 pigs will be slaughtered in the village, said local animal health manager Viorel Agud.
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<st1:city w:st="on">Smithfield</st1:city> has 25 pig farms in <st1:placename w:st="on">Timis</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> and other parts of western <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Romania</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Smithfield</st1:place></st1:city> said earlier this month it was taking steps to limit the effects of the disease and was cooperating with authorities in the slaughter.
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<st1:city w:st="on">Smithfield</st1:city> is the largest pork producer in western <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Romania</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where it has invested $1.1 billion. The company bought communist-era state-owned pig farms.
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Though swine fever is only known to affect pigs, the World Health Organization has said there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that humans might be affected in extremely rare instances.
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<st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:place></st1:country-region> joined the European Union on Jan. <st1:time hour="1" minute="00" w:st="on">1 am</st1:time>id concerns over animal health and food safety standards. The EU told both countries they would have to eradicate swine fever before they could sell pork in the rest of the EU without restrictions.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/679982.html

[Treyfish]

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Georgian, Abkhaz, Russian Officials to Meet over Pig Disease

Veterinary officials from the Georgian Ministry of Agriculture will meet with their Abkhaz and Russian colleagues on August 23 to discuss the outbreak of a devastating pig disease, African Swine Fever (ASF), in the breakaway region.
Lasha Orkoshneli, the head of the food safety and risk analysis unit at the Ministry of Agriculture, will represent the Georgian side at the meeting, which will take place in Gali, in the breakaway region.
The outbreak of ASF was first reported in Georgia in early June; more than 30,000 pigs died and a total of 22,000 pigs were culled by mid-June, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Abkhaz officials have accused Georgia of not properly handling the crisis. Some Abkhaz officials have even accused the Georgian side of deliberately throwing dead, diseased pigs into the Kodori river running from the Tbilisi-controlled upper Kodori Gorge down to Abkhaz-controlled territories. The chief veterinarian of the breakaway region, Erik Anshba, said it amounted to “biological terrorism.”
The Georgian Ministry of Agriculture has, however, dismissed the allegation as “absurd.”
African Swine Fever, which is highly contagious among pigs, results in high pig mortality, as there is no vaccine against the disease. It does not, however, affect humans. http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=15643

[Rocky]

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37,000 pigs died or were killed in Romania

52,000 in Georgia, spread from infected pigs tossed in the river...

[Snicklefritz]

Re: Romania: Outbreak of swine fever kills 20,000 pigs

This thread and this outbreak is nearly 2 years old. What is the link to the figures in the most recent post, please and thank you.

[Rocky]

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the 2007 Romanian swine fever might have caused the swine flu

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102933

"So far, Romania had swine fever cases only in the households of the population, not in large farms. "