date:Aug 22, 2012
The disease was detected for the first time ever in Ukraine. FAO officials said control measures appear to have stopped the spread of the disease. However, other parts of Ukraine and nearby countries such as Moldova, Kazakhstan and Latvia are at high risk of disease introduction because all of those countries have large swine populations that are being raised on family farms with weak biosecurity protocols.
National and local authorities in the entire region should scale up their prevention mea