75 % of Expenses for Measures Against the African Swine Fever Will Be Compensated by the EU

Culling the pigs infected with African swine fever is the only way to contain the situation in Bulgaria, said Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.

The European commissioner said that the infection, for which there is no vaccine, had most probably been carried from Romania by wild boar and added that two years ago there was African swine fever in Bulgaria too, but livestock had not been infected then.

He stated that what is most important now is to kill the animals infected. The Commissioner said the EU was compensating 75% of the actions regarding disinfectants, burying the animals and cleaning, BNR reported