African swine fever in a chicken coop in the village of Oblesevo

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African swine fever in one pig in an improvised breeding facility or, as the people say, chicken house, was confirmed today in the village of Obleshevo in the Municipality of Cheshinovo-Obleshevo, the head of the Department of Health Protection at the Agency for Food and Veterinary Medicine, Vanya Kondratenko, confirmed for MIA.

Currently, AHV teams are in the field and an inventory is being made of the pigs within a radius of three kilometers, which must be destroyed in a specialized pit, and then for the pigs within a radius of 10 kilometers, which must be taken to the slaughterhouse.

Within half a month in the regions of Makedonska Kamenica, Kočani, Vinica and Cešinovo-Obleshevo, a total of six hotspots of African swine fever have been identified, and since the beginning of the infection, there have been a total of seven hotspots in Dramce, Delčevo. 

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