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.
African swine fever is very similar to classic or European swine fever (KSF) in symptoms and course, but is mainly localized in Africa.
In recent years there have been repeated cases in Europe.
The disease has never occurred in Germany.
That could have changed now.
Further information follows