Copenhagen: Authorities in Denmark on Friday urged hunters, truck drivers and farmers to be extra careful in cleaning their equipment and avoid importing meat products following recent reports of cases of African swine fever in domestic pigs in neighboring countries. Germany.
Cases of swine flu have been reported in areas of Germany less than 400 kilometers (250 mi) from the Danish border.
“Just one case of African swine fever on Danish soil would result in the loss of billions,” said signe balslev, a veterinarian with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration.
According to official statistics, about 90% of Denmark’s pork production is exported, accounting for almost half of all agricultural exports and more than 5% of the country’s total exports. Danish pork is exported to more than 140 countries, with the largest markets being Germany, Britain, Poland, China, Japan, Italy. Russia, And Sweden.
Balslev said it was “absolutely important” that hunters and truck drivers clean their clothes, shoes, equipment and trucks after handling animals, while agricultural workers “should not bring animal foods into Denmark.” She said the infection can hide “in the soil under shoes, in weapons and other equipment, as well as in food such as pickled sausages or smoked meats.”
Unlike swine flu, African swine fever does not affect humans.
It has previously appeared among wild boars and farmed pigs in several European countries, including Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania. Slovakia, Germany and Hungary, she said.
In 2019, Denmark erected a 70-kilometre (43.4-mile) fence along the German border to protect the Danish pork industry from crossing wild boar from Germany and breeding it with farm pigs or possibly bringing disease.
The first case of African swine fever in Germany was confirmed a year ago in the eastern state of Brandenburg near the Polish border. The first case of domestic pigs was confirmed in the same state in July.
uwe feelerA deputy agriculture minister in Germany said on Friday that the situation was “dynamic” and that “transition pressure from Poland remains high,” German news agency DPA informed of.
He said Germany has so far recorded 2,070 infected wild boars, of which 1,622 are in Brandenburg and 448 infected. saxony, another eastern state. The virus has been detected in domestic pigs, in two small farms and in an organic farm with 200 animals in the East German state of Brandenburg, surrounding Berlin.
Feiler said the measures taken so far have kept the disease “confined to very limited areas in Brandenburg and Saxony” and that domestic pigs have been spared with the exception of animals on the three farms that are inside the exclusion zones.
It was unclear why the Danes reacted to the situation now.
Cases of swine flu have been reported in areas of Germany less than 400 kilometers (250 mi) from the Danish border.
“Just one case of African swine fever on Danish soil would result in the loss of billions,” said signe balslev, a veterinarian with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration.
According to official statistics, about 90% of Denmark’s pork production is exported, accounting for almost half of all agricultural exports and more than 5% of the country’s total exports. Danish pork is exported to more than 140 countries, with the largest markets being Germany, Britain, Poland, China, Japan, Italy. Russia, And Sweden.
Balslev said it was “absolutely important” that hunters and truck drivers clean their clothes, shoes, equipment and trucks after handling animals, while agricultural workers “should not bring animal foods into Denmark.” She said the infection can hide “in the soil under shoes, in weapons and other equipment, as well as in food such as pickled sausages or smoked meats.”
Unlike swine flu, African swine fever does not affect humans.
It has previously appeared among wild boars and farmed pigs in several European countries, including Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania. Slovakia, Germany and Hungary, she said.
In 2019, Denmark erected a 70-kilometre (43.4-mile) fence along the German border to protect the Danish pork industry from crossing wild boar from Germany and breeding it with farm pigs or possibly bringing disease.
The first case of African swine fever in Germany was confirmed a year ago in the eastern state of Brandenburg near the Polish border. The first case of domestic pigs was confirmed in the same state in July.
uwe feelerA deputy agriculture minister in Germany said on Friday that the situation was “dynamic” and that “transition pressure from Poland remains high,” German news agency DPA informed of.
He said Germany has so far recorded 2,070 infected wild boars, of which 1,622 are in Brandenburg and 448 infected. saxony, another eastern state. The virus has been detected in domestic pigs, in two small farms and in an organic farm with 200 animals in the East German state of Brandenburg, surrounding Berlin.
Feiler said the measures taken so far have kept the disease “confined to very limited areas in Brandenburg and Saxony” and that domestic pigs have been spared with the exception of animals on the three farms that are inside the exclusion zones.
It was unclear why the Danes reacted to the situation now.
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