Hunting parties in Ruse district (Southeastern Bulgaria) have shot three wild boars infected with African swine fever. "There are positive samples at the beginning of the hunting season which is a concern both for industrial and private pig..
Bulgaria has detected a second outbreak of African swine fever in the last two days. An outbreak of African swine fever was detected in a private farm in Plovdiv district. Five animals have symptoms of swine fever. Two days ago an outbreak of swine..
Almost 90% of the farms in Bulgaria, which were affected by the outbreak of African swine fever in 2019, are already working. However, pork production has not reached pre-crisis levels. The African swine fever outbreak led to a decline in the..
The European Commission has approved all costs Bulgaria made in 2020 to combat African swine fever and will reimburse the maximum 75 percent of them . The funds are over 7.5m euros, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said. In November 2020, an..
In 2020, Bulgaria reports a double decline in the incidence of African swine fever in animals as compared to 2019. This was stated by Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture Desislava Taneva at a video conference of EU agriculture ministers, the ministry..
The African swine fever has demolished 15% of the population of domestic pigs in Bulgaria since it emerged in 2018. A total of 203,000 pigs were killed and euthanized, this country’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Desislava Taneva announced. One..
Over 6,000 domestic pigs were killed in the recent years worldwide due to the African swine fever. In Bulgaria a total of 203,000 pigs were killed due to this disease, Bulgaria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Desislava Taneva said in Berlin...
The African swine fever is not only a regional, but also a global problem, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov commented at a meeting with the EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis. In Premier Borissov’s words, the..
At the end of September Bulgaria is to undergo a European Commission audit of the measures the country is applying to tackle the swine fever epidemic, on which the financial support for the measures taken depends, said Minister of Agriculture..
Bulgaria is going to receive EU financial assistance totaling 2.9 million euros in order to fight the spread of African swine fever. This has become clear after a meeting in Brussels of Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva and EU Commissioner for Health..
