African swine fever virus (ASF) has been detected for the first time in a domestic pig in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Friedrich Löffler Institute (FLI) has confirmed the positive result in a pig from a small farm in Gerolsheim (district of Bad Dürkheim).
An exclusion zone III (ten kilometers) has been delineated around the pig farm, where strict restrictions apply to the trade of pigs and pig products and slaughter. There are 13 domestic pigs on a total of seven farms in the area.
The new outbreak is again located a few kilometers from the French border, about 65 km as the crow flies.
The first case of ASF in wild boar in Rhineland-Palatinate was detected on July 9 in Gimbsheim in the district of Alzey-Worms. So far, only wild boars had been affected in Rhineland-Palatinate, with a total of 34 cases in the districts of Alzey-Worms and Mainz-Bingen.
August 15, 2024/ Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy and Mobility/ Germany.
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