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African swine fever soon in Bavaria? Nuremberg zoo worried about rare species

2022-02-10T14:28:57.504Z


African swine fever soon in Bavaria? Nuremberg zoo worried about rare species Created: 02/10/2022 15:18 The Nuremberg zoo is worried about its deer boars. © Tom Burger/Tiergarten Nuremberg It's getting closer and closer: African swine fever is causing great concern for Nuremberg Zoo. What happens when she ambushes him and his deer boar? Nuremberg – How dangerous is African swine fever (ASF) fo


African swine fever soon in Bavaria?

Nuremberg zoo worried about rare species

Created: 02/10/2022 15:18

The Nuremberg zoo is worried about its deer boars.

© Tom Burger/Tiergarten Nuremberg

It's getting closer and closer: African swine fever is causing great concern for Nuremberg Zoo.

What happens when she ambushes him and his deer boar?

Nuremberg – How dangerous is African swine fever (ASF) for humans and animals?

Well, it is harmless to humans and other animals, but pigs can die from it.

And the virus is getting closer: in 2007, ASF came from Africa to Georgia, in 2014 it reached the European Union, in 2020 the first case in a wild boar in Brandenburg became known.

The disease has now spread to Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Not far to Bavaria: Nuremberg Zoo* is worried.

He keeps babirusa, a species of pig that is in danger of extinction.

Each additional death makes it harder to save the species.

This is reported by the city of Nuremberg* in a press release.

Deer boar in the Nuremberg zoo: every loss weighs heavily

Jörg Beckmann, deputy director of the zoo, is concerned: "With African swine fever, we have for the first time a threat that affects the wild population and the so-called reserve population in the zoos at the same time." As chairman of the specialist group for tapirs, hippos and pig species of the With the European Association of Zoos, EAZA, he works to protect endangered species by preserving healthy animals outside of their natural habitat and preventing their species from becoming extinct.

According to the city, one of the 42 boars housed in Europe's zoos lives in Nuremberg Zoo.

In addition to boar, other pig species are also threatened by ASF and are threatened with extinction.

In order to preserve the species, the Association of Zoological Gardens and the German Animal Park Society, among others, have chosen the Visayan warty pig as zoo animal of the year 2022.

This should bring the problem closer to the fore.

(By the way: Our Nuremberg newsletter regularly informs you about all the important stories from the Franconian metropolis. Register here.)

A discarded sausage roll in the woods can be deadly

The virus is transmitted through direct contact and blood.

But humans can also be to blame for the virus spreading.

For example, if we throw a sausage roll into the forest, in the worst case it can come from an infected pig that is eaten by other pigs.

Because the virus can survive for several weeks and reach a new host via different materials.

When an outbreak occurs, several hundred animals usually have to be killed.

However, there is an exception when it comes to species that are threatened with extinction.

For example, pigs in zoos that are close to an ASF outbreak do not necessarily have to be killed, the city writes.

In the long term, however, one would like to contain the epidemic.

Employees of the Friedrich-Löffler-Institut (FLI) are currently working on a vaccine against ASF in order to preserve the pig species.

*Merkur.de/bayern is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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