Alert in Lezha/ African plague cases are identified, the area around Rrenci Mountain is quarantined

2024-11-29 11:24:47Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Alert in Lezha/ African plague cases are identified, the area around Rrenci
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An outbreak of the African plague has been identified in Mali e Rrenci in Lezhë.

The disease has appeared in pigs and according to the information, at least 10 heads have died, of which five inside a farm and five others along the forest massif of this area.

After the identification of the cases, the Veterinary Service in Lezha was immediately put into motion and the analyzes carried out showed that the pigs died from the African plague. For this reason, the area has been placed in quarantine, while verifications are being carried out in the entire area.

The veterinary service has refused to comment while all personnel are at work today and are continuing to analyze the situation.

African swine fever (ASF) is caused by a virus of the family Asfaviridae and is highly contagious affecting domestic and wild pigs, where the mortality rate can reach up to 100%.
The virus of this disease is very resistant in the environment, which means that it can survive on clothes, boots, wheels and other materials and can also survive on various pork products and by-products.

It has been seen that the ASF virus survives in meat, minced meat and offal 105 days, salted meat 182 days, dry meat, fat skin 300 days, frozen meat 1000 days and is inactivated in boiled meat (30 minutes at 70 degrees). The survival of the virus in meat products is the potential factor for transmission of African swine fever.


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