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Another suspected case of African swine fever (ASF) has been discovered in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. The animal was found near a former military training area near Redlin which lies outside the previously established core zone of the restriction area and is directly in the border area to the neighboring state of Brandenburg. "This means that we are dealing with a new core zone that, for the first time in Germany, extends across two federal states," said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Till Backhaus.
This means that on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania side, only the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim is still affected by ASF in the wild boar population. In this context, Minister Backhaus emphasized that apart from the six confirmed ASF cases around the outbreak near Marnitz, there is currently no further positive ASF evidence in wild boars. At the Lalendorf site, where there is an ASF outbreak in the domestic pig population, there have so far been no further indications of the virus in the wild boar population.
At present, there is no reliable information on how and by which route ASF entered into the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Backhaus said. It is clear, however, that the same virus variant has been detected in the domestic pig population in Lalendorf (Rostock district) and at the Marnitz site, which is currently rampant throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Poland, and Brandenburg.
African swine fever in Germany and western Poland since September 2020 (as of December 3, 2021). Source: FLI.
November 2, 2021/ State Government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/ Germany.
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