Germany detects first case of ASF in wild boars in Rhineland-Palatinate

The Friedrich Loeffler Institute confirmed the presence of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in a wild boar carcass found on 6 July in Gimbsheim, district of Alzey-Worms, in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The first sample tested on July 8 by the State Investigation Office (LUA) was already positive. Meanwhile, there is another suspected case of African Swine Fever in a wild boar carcass found in Oppenheim, in the district of Mainz-Bingen. The district was already in the restriction zone after the first case of ASF ...