According to the Zooprophylactic Institute Umbria and Marche, the National Reference Center for pestiviruses, the presence of African swine fever has been confirmed in a wild boar in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. It is a dead animal found in Ovada, province of Alessandria.
ASF is present in Italy on the island of Sardinia, where the disease is endemic.


ASF outbreaks reported in Europe since January 2021.
January 7, 2022/ 333 staff.