Nébih orders epidemiological quarantine on three pig farms in Somogy

They wrote: the clinical symptoms of the infectious disease caused by the herpes virus, which is not dangerous to humans but is dangerous to many animal species, primarily pigs, first appeared on a breeding farm in Somogyszob last December, where the number of piglet deaths and abortions increased. The presence of the disease was confirmed in the Nébih laboratory on December 31 and then on January 6 with a serological test – they added. They highlighted that the official measures had already begun on December 31, as part of which samples were taken from three additional farms of the farm, of which two herds – Somogyszob, Nagybaráti-puszta, and Böhönye, Terepezd-puszta – confirmed the presence of the infection. Official measures were ordered on the affected farms in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the rules for the exemption of pig herds from Aujeszky’s disease and the maintenance of immunity, and an epidemiological investigation is underway to discover the origin of the infection and examine the contact farms, they announced.

Nébih wrote that Hungary has been recognized as free from the disease by the European Union since 2015

According to the regulations, “the current outbreak” does not endanger the country’s immunity status, but at the same time, the measures specified in national and European Union legislation must be fully implemented to maintain immunity, they emphasized. It was emphasized that accordingly, it is justified to eliminate the infected herds and, among other things, to examine the herds of pig farms located within a two-kilometer radius of the affected farms or in epidemiological contact with them.

MTI