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Russia bans pork imports from Mongolia amid ASF outbreak

  • 19 Feb 09:44

With no vaccine to protect animals, researchers say the virus – which can survive for more than a year in dry-cured ham – is a particular risk to countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar.Russia’s veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed temporary restrictions on the import of pork and pig products from Mongolia due to outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) according to RBC. A document signed by the Deputy Head of the agency, Konstantin Savenkov, imposes a ban on the import of domestic pigs and captive wild pigs from Mongolia. The ban also applies to waste and manure from pigs, used equipment for housing, slaughter and cutting,. Read more...