The affected breeding has 35 pigs raised outdoors, which have all been slaughtered. The disease, which only affects pigs, wild boars and tighty, has been circulating in wild fauna in Italy for several months.
Le Monde with AFP
This is the first time that a case has been discovered on the western border of Germany, west of the Rhine. An African Porcine Plague Hall has been detected in a German farming six kilometers from the French border, in Forchheim Am Kaiserstuhl, announced the French Ministry of Agriculture, Thursday, May 26.
The 35 pigs raised outdoors in the affected breeding have all been slaughtered. “No case has been identified at this stage in wildlife in the surrounding area,” said the ministry, which will launch a crisis unit “next week” with “all professionals and services ‘State “. The introduction of this virus in France “could have serious socio-economic and health consequences for the professional sectors concerned”, warns the Ministry of Agriculture on its site .
In connection with the European Commission, a protection and surveillance area is set up by the German authorities, who will “intensify the research of wild boar carcasses and control farms around”.
worry in Italy
African swine plague has been circulating in wild fauna in Italy for several months and the first cases were detected there in January, in Piedmont (northwest). The neighboring region of Liguria is also affected.
An emergency plan to stem the virus in the Rome region, which has been about eight cases since the start of the year, has been launched. A red zone with a 65 -kilometer perimeter in the north of the capital has been defined and will be surrounded by a 1.5 -kilometer high fence.
The main Italian agricultural association, the Coldiretti, alerted the government in mid-May to a virus which “jeopardizes the 29,000 Italian farms and a strategic economic sector generating an annual turnover of 20 billion euros and employing a hundred thousand people “.
The Coldiretti demanded “new rapid interventions for the slaughter and the fight against the proliferation of wild boars throughout the country” to stop the dissemination of the disease. “A slaughter plan will be launched within a month,” said the Secretary of State for Health, Andrea Costa, May 18.
The disease only affects pigs, wild boars and tighty. Non -transmitted to humans, the virus can however survive more than two months in meats and cold meats from animals suffering.
It is transmitted from one animal to another by the consumption of infected foodstuffs – for example if domestic pigs are fed with leftovers – or by contact with any contaminated medium. France experienced sporadic homes in 1964, 1967 and 1974, but since has been unscathed.