ASF in Germany
Our report on Germany, Europe's largest pork producer, confirming its first case of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar, was the top hitting article of last month.
There had been concerns for many months that the virus would cross over the Polish border and spread to German wild boars; Germany’s agriculture ministry verified on September 10 that a case involving a wild boar carcass, which was discovered just a few kilometers from Germany's border with Poland, in the Spree-Neisse district in the southern part of Brandenburg, was ASF.
Today, the ministry confirmed that 10 more cases of ASF have been confirmed in wild boars in the state of Brandenburg, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 65 since the first one on September 10.
All the cases to date have been in wild animals with no farm pigs affected.