Ten outbreaks of African swine fever on Polish pig farms

Published 2024년 6월 21일

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Poland is experiencing a pattern of African swine fever outbreaks on pig farms, with many cases concentrated in the northeast and near the German border. So far in 2023, the disease has affected over 3,000 pigs and nearly 2,700 wild boars. Europe has seen a significant outbreak in Italy, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Greece, Moldova, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany, and Lithuania, with Italy and Poland reporting the highest wild boar infections (960 and 930, respectively). The disease has also been reported in other countries like Latvia, Lithuania, and Hungary, with Germany recently confirming 120 infected wild boars and 1 case in Hesse near the Dutch border.

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In Poland, there appear to be clear links between the outbreaks of African swine fever on pig farms. In the northeast of the country, the companies of outbreaks 2, 6, 7, 9 and 10 are close to each other. Most of these farms have an average size for Poland of 146, 600, 425 and 540 pigs respectively. Only company 9 is small with 25 pigs. Outbreaks 4, 5 and 8 are close together. These are farms with 34, 102 and 125 pigs. Company 3 is located near the border in northwestern Poland, next to the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where a German company was recently found to be infected. The first outbreak this year was in southeastern Poland next to the Ukrainian border. In 2023, there were 30 outbreaks of African swine fever in domestic pigs and almost 2,700 outbreaks in wild boars in Poland. So far this year, there have been 930 outbreaks in wild boars, involving a total of more than 1,000 boars. Italy In Italy, 960 infections of African swine fever in wild boars have already ...

Source: Nieuwe Oogst