Europe: The number of reports of African swine fever in Poland has risen to thirty

The first report of African swine fever in farmed pigs in Poland was on June 4 this year. At first, new infections emerged slowly, but things have been moving rapidly in recent weeks. From outbreak 15 on July 6, almost all outbreaks occurred in the Greater Poland Province on farms ranging in size from 24 to 2,771 pigs. There are now eighteen outbreaks there. The infected area and the buffer zone in this area need to be expanded, because there are outbreaks on the edges or just outside the area. Many pig farms are faced with transport bans. Poland cannot get the wild boar situation under control. There are now 1,093 outbreaks affecting one or more wild boars. The total number of infected wild boars is over 1,500. Italy There have been five outbreaks of African swine fever in domestic pigs in Italy this year. In the Lombardy region, there are two outbreaks in Milan, just outside the infected area, and two outbreaks in farmed pigs in the province of Pavia. In addition, the virus has ...