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The intensive search for wild boar started in the affected districts with the first confirmed positive ASF case. According to the Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (FLI), this carcass had been dead in the corn field near Sembten (Spree-Neisse) for around 2-4 weeks before it was found on September 7.
In the course of this search for wild boar, numerous other carcasses were and continue to be found, all of which are being sampled. Among them were four skeletons without tissue, which were found on September 18 and 19 in the hotspot Dorchetal in the southwest of Neuzelle (Oder-Spree). As part of the first epidemiological outbreak investigations, the FLI informed the ASF crisis team last week that these four carcasses must have been at the site an estimated 8 to 10 weeks before they were discovered. This means that the epidemic was introduced in the first half of July. These research results were presented and discussed at the meeting of the state crisis team on September 25 in Potsdam.
October 1, 2020/ MSGIV/ Germany.
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