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  • 02 Sep 2015, 10:45

Both wild boar and swine were affected in the outbreaks.There were three deaths in wild boar out of eight cases. Another 19 wild boar were destroyed to prevent the disease spreading. These outbreaks occurred in the Ryazanskaya and Yaroslavskaya provinces.

A further outbreak affected a backyard swine holding in Bryanskaya Oblast, with one death out of a susceptible population of three pigs.