Russia Farm Kills over 30000 pigs.

Russia Farm Kills All 30,736 of its Pigs Because of Swine Fever

A southern Russian farm had to slaughter all 30,736 of its pigs because of African swine fever, the country’s largest outbreak of the virus. The pigs at the Plemzavod Industrialny farm in the southern Russian Krasnodar region were used to supply pork to local markets, said Alexei Alekseenko, a spokesman for the Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s food safety agency. Veterinary officials at the Timashevsky district were fired, he said.
A farm worker who kept his own hogs probably brought the virus in, Alekseenko said. African swine fever was discovered in 21 of Russia’s 83 regions since 2007, according to Rosselkhoznadzor