Besides, according to the Finnish veterinary service, the premises of the farm, where the disease case had been registered, were disinfected and closed for a three-week quarantine.
The Newcastle virus was registered on July 19 at a farm in the province of West Finland (administrative district of Satakunta). Following its detection, other farms in Satakunta were inspected. The virus was not detected there.
On Tuesday, the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection banned import of live poultry, hatching eggs, poultry meat and all types of poultry products, which had not been heat treated, and all chickenfeed from West Finland and the county of Ostergotland in Sweden, where two cases of the Newcastle disease had been registered.
The Finnish Veterinary Service makes no comments as to the ban, introduced by Russia, pointing out, at the same time, that the measures taken by Finland are sufficient to ensure safety of the country's poultry farms.
