Anabel Oliva, veterinarian: "The true allies against swine fever are the hunters"

Following the confirmation by the Ministry of Agriculture of cases in Barcelona of wild boars infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Bellaterra area, expert sources are the ones who clarify the reasons for this uproar if it does not affect humans and what to do now. Actualidad has contacted the veterinarian Anabel Oliva, who explains the reasons for this situation and the importance of social alarm. “It seems like tales from the grandparents, but the scourge of ASF marked and pursued us in the past for more than 35 years. Eradicating it is very difficult and stopping being declared as an 'ASF-free country' is vital for the international trade of pork. Today, ordinary citizens live in a hurry. We want to know if the news affects us directly or not and based on that, we ignore it or put it on our to-do list. Unfortunately, that way of coping with life, that immediacy, does not bring us anything in the future. This disease is an example of that and we are going to explain it ...