African swine fever case registered in Chernivtsi region

"The examination of the selected samples of biological material at Kyiv's State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Examination on June 7, 2016, diagnosed ASF," the service said. Measures are being taken to localize the disease on the site of the outbreak and prevent the spread of ASF pathogens, it said. Prior to the recent outbreak, Ukraine has registered 10 more ASF cases since the beginning of 2016. In particular, three cases were in Poltava and Odesa regions each, one in Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kirovohrad, and Khmelnytsky regions each. All in all, by June 8, 2016 there had been three areas exposed to ASF in Khmelnytsky, Sumy and Chernivtsi regions.