Question 15953 — animals

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Ms. Valérie Beauvais draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the risk of development of African swine fever in France. Appearing for the first time in Kenya, African swine fever is a viral and infectious animal disease. Impacting pigs, wild swine and ticks of the ornithodoros genus, the disease is characterized by an extremely high mortality rate. Introduced in Belarus in 2007, the disease persisted in Russia before spreading to Western Europe as far as Belgium where an outbreak occurred in September 2018. As this outbreak is located near the French border, measures were taken by the national authorities to avoid any importation of the disease, before they were relaxed taking into account the estimated reduction in the risk. Had Given the dangerousness of the disease, the diversity of means by which it can spread and the existence of an outbreak close to the territory, it would like to know precisely the measures planned to measure the state of the threat. Consequently, she asks him to please indicate the means that the Government intends to deploy to contain the threat and sustainably protect the French population and livestock farms. pigs against the proliferation of the disease on the national territory.

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