African swine fever

African swine fever is a contagious disease. It is characterized by fever, necrotic or inflammatory changes of the parenchymatous organs. Also it is characterized by hemorrhagic diathesis.

African swine fever: what kind of disease

It is caused by DNA-containing virus which emerged as an independent family. This virus is very resistant to low temperatures. It is also resistant to drying and rotting. the Source of infection are sick animals that are carriers of the virus for more than fifteen months. Most often, the infection occurs through damaged mucous membranes, wounds on the skin, through meat, blood and so on. Sometimes the infection is carried by insects that come into contact with sick (dead) animals.

Under natural conditions, African swine fever affects wild and domestic pigs. The virus may lurk long in the body and not to make itself felt. Basically the incubation period lasts from five to ten days. Most often, the disease progresses very quickly. Its main forms: acute, super acute, chronic, subacute, latent. The most common of these forms-the acute and super acute.

For super acute flow is characterized by a very high body temperature of the animal. He has shortness of breath, death occurs within three days. African swine fever can cause death even without any clinical manifestations.
Acute course temperature is also always increased. The condition of the animal becomes depressed, weakness, lack of appetite, drowsiness, paresis of limbs, possible vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. The latter is not a particularly common phenomenon, as in most cases, animals suffer from constipation. In this case, you can see spots of purple color, which are located on the snout, belly, neck, and perineum. African swine fever in the acute form may be accompanied by bronchitis. Before death the temperature falls below normal. In most cases the animal dies while in a coma.
Subacute course of the disease the symptoms are a little different from acute. Just it is slow. Last African plague in this case can be up to twenty days. The result – death.

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The chronic course of the disease does not occur very often. Some animals survive. Symptoms: slow growth, stagnation, exhaustion, arthritis, and more.

The Latent period does not have any specific clinical manifestations.

African swine fever: treatment and prevention

No cure still does not exist. Measures of prevention may be different. In it is impossible to prevent the spread of infected meat. For this there is veterinarski supervision. Special attention is paid to imported pig meat that is imported from countries where were recorded outbreaks of the disease.

The detection of the causative agent of all the animals that belong to a particular farm will be quarantined. In almost all cases they are killed in the bloodless way. Body burned – this is a mandatory rule. All farms that are in the neighborhood, definitely pass the test.

The spread of infection is cut out all the pigs at a distance of ten kilometers square.

African swine fever in Russia

For the First time on the territory of our country it was recorded in 1977. In that year killed many animals, but the epidemic was stopped. The second time she hit our country in 2008. It is worth noting that in recent years to observe it quite often. African swine fever in the Krasnodar region, Rostov region, Novokubansk area and other regions of the Russian Federation has dealt a serious blow to the farming industry.