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The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) reports that African swine fever (ASF) has been detected in two domestic pig farms in Lower Saxony and Brandenburg in the districts of Emsland and Uckermark, respectively.
This is the first case of ASF in Lower Saxony, the biggest pig-producing area in Germany. The disease has been detected in a farm with 280 sows and 1500 piglets in Emsbüren, approximately 20 km from the Dutch border. At the moment, how the virus entered into the farm is not yet known. A restriction zone has been established within a radius of 10 km where there are 296 pig farms producing 195,000 pigs.
In Brandenburg, ASF has been confirmed in a pig farm with 1,300 finishing pigs in the district of Uckermark. This is the fourth outbreak in domestic pigs in this German state.
On 10 September 2020, a first case of ASF was confirmed in a wild boar in Germany. In mid-July 2021, the disease was also first reported in a pig farm. So far, cases have been confirmed in Brandenburg (wild boar and domestic pigs), Saxony (wild boar), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (wild boar and domestic pig), Baden-Württemberg (domestic pig) and now in Lower Saxony (domestic pig).
July 4, 2022/ 333 Staff
