Will Germany have to fight African swine fever soon?
There is an official suspected case in the Berlin-Brandenburg state laboratory.
Berlin - In
Brandenburg
there is an official suspected case of
African swine fever
.
The Berlin-Brandenburg state laboratory had suspected a
wild boar carcass that was
found a few kilometers from the German-Polish border in the
Spree-Neisse district
, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture announced on Wednesday.
A solid protective fence was actually
planned
in
the Spree-Neisse district
on the border with
Poland
, but has not yet been built.
A mobile fence is already there.
A sample of the dead animal is now being
examined virologically
at the
Friedrich Loeffler Institute
.
Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner
(CDU) will inform about the result on Thursday.
In Brandenburg there is a suspected case of African swine fever, found in wild boar carcasses, a few km from the DEU-POL border.
Probe is on the way to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute.
BMin @JuliaKloeckner will inform you about the results of the investigation tomorrow.
- BMEL 🇪🇺 # EU2020DE (@bmel) September 9, 2020
The spokesman for the
consumer protection ministry in Brandenburg
, Gabriel Hesse, told the
German press agency
: “Today we have identified an official suspected case of African swine fever.” Only when the national reference laboratory also confirms the suspicion can an outbreak be spoken of.
The state crisis center and the municipal crisis centers are activated.
First protection measures are being prepared.
The
African swine fever
is the
classical swine fever or
very similar (KSP) in symptoms and history, however, is primarily located in Africa.
In recent years there have been repeated cases in Europe.
The disease has never occurred in Germany.
That could have changed now.
The viruses are harmless to humans, but are usually fatal to wild and domestic pigs.
(as / dpa)
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