Europe: surge in African swine fever cases in wild boars

In Eastern Europe, African swine fever is expanding increasingly. Since the beginning of this year there have been 2,259 new African swine fever cases in the European Union and Ukraine.

Monday, April 16^th, 2018/ ADNS/ European Union. <br>https://ec.europa.eu/food

The last data published by the European Commission through its animal diseases notification system (ADNS), show how between January 1^st and April 15^th, 2018 the African swine fever cases in wild boars have rocketed, with 2,259 cases, reaching more than half of the total cases notified in 2017.

Country	Date of the last outbreak	Outbreaks
Czech Republic	April 11th, 2018	25
Estonia	April 9th, 2018	150
Italy	January 30th, 2018	24
Latvia	April 12th, 2018	286
Lithuania	April 12th, 2018	728
Poland	April 13th, 2018	1020
Ukraine	April 8th, 2018	26

In the case of domestic pig infections, since the start of 2018 and to date, 31 outbreaks have been notified, as shown in the following table:

Country	Date of the last outbreak	Outbreaks
Italy	February 12th, 2018	2
Poland	February 23rd, 2018	4
Romania	February 23rd, 2018	3
Ukraine	April 6th, 2018	22

Monday, April 16th, 2018/ ADNS/ European Union.
https://ec.europa.eu/food

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