Pork industry at risk as swine fever hits farms across Eastern Europe
More than 120,000 pigs have been slaughtered in Bulgaria in an attempt to limit the number of cases of swine fever.
In Romania,
300 new outbreaks were reported in July. Animal health experts are concerned it has the potential to devastate the continent’s pork industry.
Both Romania and Bulgaria
have taken measures to prevent further spread of the virus. Hundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled.
The two countries are among the poorest in the European Union.
Almost 130,000 pigs have been killed on six breeding farms in the Black Sea country in the past two weeks.
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