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As Food and Veterinary Service spokeswoman Anna Joffe informed the business information portal Nozare.lv, pork imports from Lithuania have been halted for a temporary period of time.

People in Latvia who have purchased Lithuanian pork products the past two weeks and still have these products in their homes, are asked to evaluate whether to eat them, as well as not dispose of them in regular garbage bins, so that these products do not circulate further into the environment and wild boar or other domestic pigs cannot access them.

As reported, African swine fever has been confirmed in a large farm complex in Lithuania, Ignalina Region, Director of the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service Jonas Milius has informed.

African swine fever is not harmful to humans. This is the first time that African swine fever has been registered in the territory of Latvia.

The government has already declared a state of emergency in the area where the African swine-fever breakouts have occurred in Latvia.