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A few more days, with a lot of warmth and sun, then perhaps nothing would have been seen of that corpus delicti that was inherent in ruin.
Only skin and bones were left of the sunken boar carcass, which was shriveling to itself on the edge of a harvested corn field between the Brandenburg towns of Sembten and Bomsdorf.
But the smell of putrefaction was so bestial that the animal's corpse aroused the curiosity of a walker.
He reported the find to a hunter the week before last - and thus sealed the next low blow for German pig farmers, who are currently recovering from the corona-related sales crisis.
The dead animal carried the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus.
This week, the authorities reported six more cases of infection near the site of the first discovery; the wild boars were probably all members of the same pack.
The area was cordoned off, an emergency plan came into effect, sniffer dogs from Schleswig-Holstein were requested to sniff out further carcasses as quickly as possible.
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