FAO CERTIFIES EXISTENCE OF SWINE FEVER

Panorama.am
20:42 18/10/2007

"The results of tests by the FAO organization of the United Nations
(World Food Program) are already in Armenia. According to early
diagnoses, swine fever exists in Armenia," Grisha Baghyan, of the
Ministry of Agriculture, said during an interview with a Panorama.am
journalist.

A two-person group from FAO has arrived in Armenia, with
whom laboratory workers from the agriculture department have
collaborated. In Baghyan’s words, both equipment and experts exist in
Armenia, but that for certifying the existence of the disease tests
are needed. Baghyan said that the disease still hasn’t been put to
an end in Tavoush and Lori provinces. They have already slaughtered
some 4,800 sick animals.

Announced quarantines in these provinces are continuing. According
to 2006 statistics, in Tavoush and Lori there were 28,987 and 16,434
pigs, correspondingly.

We remind that the South Caucasus is now considered an area of swine
flu infection.