The Friedrich Loeffler Institute has confirmed the presence of African swine fever virus (ASF) in a wild boar carcass found on July 6 in Gimbsheim, district of Alzey-Worms, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The first sample tested on July 8 by the State Bureau of Investigation (LUA) was positive.
Meanwhile, another suspected case of ASF in a wild boar carcass was found in Oppenheim in the district of Mainz-Bingen.
The district was already within the restriction zone after the first ASF case in wild boar was detected in Hesse on June 15.
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