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Yesterday, May 25, the German health authorities confirmed the presence of African swine fever on a domestic pig farm located in the district of Emmendingen, in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, less than 7 km from the border with France and more than 500 km away from the other detected outbreaks. This is the first case of the disease in this federal state.
The affected farm is an organic finishing pig production, with an inventory of 35 pigs and has double fencing. In addition, other agricultural activities of fruit and vegetable production are carried out there, with more than 140 employees from other European countries working on the farm.
The disease was suspected after clinical and pathological signs typical of ASF were seen in the pigs and three of them had died. The German authorities immediately visited the farm to take samples that were sent to the regional laboratory, where they were found positive for viral genome detection by RT-PCR on May 24, and were sent for official confirmation to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), the National Reference Laboratory for ASF in Germany, where they were confirmed positive for the disease by RT-PCR on the following day, May 25. The remaining animals were culled.
To date, ASF cases have occurred mainly in wild boar and have affected the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Saxony. In domestic swine, only 5 outbreaks have been confirmed, 3 of them in Brandenburg, 1 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and the last one in Baden-Württemberg.
May 26, 2022/ 333 Staff with data from BMEL and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Food.
