Animal diseases
For the first time, African swine plague in NRW has been proven
It was only a matter of time for experts. The African swine plague has now also arrived in North Rhine-Westphalia. A wild boar died in the disease was found in the Sauerland.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the first case of the African swine plague (ASP) has been detected. As a Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, the responsible Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) confirmed the virus in a dead wild boar found in the Sauerland. This was announced by the NRW Ministry of Agriculture. A hunter had found the carcass in the Olpe district.
Follow can be far -reaching
“The primary goal is to prevent the local case from spreading in the wild boar,” said North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister of Agriculture Silke Gorißen (CDU). “I appeal to our farmers with pig content to pay particular attention to the well -known organic safety measures to protect domestic pigs from the ASP,” continued the minister.
Safe for humans
African swine fever is harmless to humans. The same applies to other types of house and farm animals than pigs. For house and wild boars, however, an infection with the ASP virus is almost always fatal. Farmers are therefore afraid of spreading the plague.
The swine plague originally spread in Africa was first detected in the European Union in 2014. In Germany, there have been several thousand findings at Wildschweinen in Brandenburg, Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg since the departure of the 2020 outbreak in 2020.
dpa
Source: Stern
