ASF, now 12 km away from Germany
A carcass of a wild boar infected with African swine fever virus was found in Poland 12 kilometers away from the German border, informs Agrarheute magazine. The situation has put German authorities on alert, as the disease seems to move faster than expected. In a 2018 prediction made by Polish researchers, the risk of a virus entering Germany through wild boar population was estimated at 4-5 years. Nevertheless, the hunting parties organized last year seem to have pushed the animals out of their area to the western regions of Poland.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture declared for the German Press Agency (DPA) that the set of biosecurity measures adopted in the last few weeks remains the same. Germany has installed protective fences along the border and hunters were advised to shoot the wild boars coming from the neighbouring country.
According to Eurostat data, in November, the national swine inventory in Germany was around 26 million head.
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