ASF: Europe battles the threat from its forests
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“Highly pathogenic African swine fever virus is present in all wild boar in Poland; there are no safe levels of wild boar density” Poland’s first incidence of ASF was in wild boar in 2014 and since then it has recorded over 7,000 wild-boar cases of the disease as well as nearly 270 outbreaks in domestic pigs, notes Professor Grzegorz Wozniakowski, Director of the country’s National Reference Laboratory on African swine fever. He sets out Polish experiences over the past six years in dealing with the risk of very virulent strains of the ASF virus passing to farm pigs from forest swine. Running time: 33 minutes
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