Last week, the disease was detected in 10 wild boars in Aizkraukle district, including five wild boars in Seces parish, two wild boars in Klintaines parish, one wild boar in Koknese parish, one wild boar in Mazzalve parish and one wild boar in Sunākste parish, as well as nine wild boars in Limbažu county, including six wild boars in Aloja parish and three wild boars in Pāle parish.
Also, husbands were found last week in seven wild boars in Ogre county, including four wild boars in Laubere parish, two wild boars in Birzgales parish and one wild boar in Rembates parish, as well as six wild boars in Valmiera parish, including two wild boars in Plāņi parish, two wild boars in Rencēni parish and two wild boars in Valmiera parish.
ASF was also detected last week in three wild boars in Madona county, including one wild boar in Kalsnava parish, one wild boar in Liezere parish and one wild boar in Liaodon parish, two wild boars in Rankas parish of Gulbene county and two wild boars in Olaine parish of Olaine county.
The disease was also detected last week in one wild boar in Mārkalne parish of Alūksne county, one wild boar in Dāviņu parish of Bauska county, one wild boar in Sēlpils parish of Jēkabpils county, one wild boar in Konstantinova parish of Krāslava county, one wild boar in Salaspils parish of Salaspils county, and one wild boar in Zem parish of Tukuma county for the pig Valkas in Vijciem parish of the county.
Thus, in the population of wild boars in Latvia this year, the ACM found 774 wild boars in 127 parishes of 30 counties and one city area.
Since June 2014, when ASF was registered for the first time in Latvia, the virus was detected in a total of 9050 wild boars, including in 2014 ASF was detected in 217 wild boars in Latvia, in 2015 – 1048, in 2016 – 1146, in 2017 – 1431, in 2018 in 2019 – 430, in 2020 – 377, in 2021 – 448, in 2022 – 1274 wild boars, and in 2023 – 1002 wild boars.
LETA has already announced that this year the ACM was also found in four farms with domestic pigs – including the farm “Lelles” in Matīšu parish of Valmiera county, which had 527 domestic pigs, in a backyard farm in Kalsnava parish of Madona county, which had two pigs, in a farm in Vecate parish of Valmiera county, in which there were 24 pigs, and in the homestead farm in Cesvaines parish of Madona county, which had two pigs.
ASF was registered in Latvia for the first time in June 2014 in three wild boars a few meters from the border of Belarus. ASF It is a very dangerous disease, and the entire herd must be slaughtered in a house where the disease has been detected.
PVD is a state administrative institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, which carries out state supervision and control of the food circulation and veterinary medicine industry.
Source: www.diena.lv