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  • ASF strikes again: second outbreak on a farm in Poland in 2025

    Poland has recorded its second outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) on a farm this year, once again confirming the threat hanging over the pig farming industry. The new outbreak was detected on a farm in the Lublin Province, in the Bialski County. This is the first case of ASF in this region in 2025.

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  • ASF Germany: Many dead wild boar in Hesse state

    It looks like the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in western Germany isn’t going to be over any time soon. In the Bergstraße district in the south of the state Hesse, the death toll has risen considerably amongst the wild boar population. This has prompted authorities to expand the current core zones.

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  • Canada reopens doors to Italian hams

    Italy’s Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forestry, Francesco Lollobrigida, expressed great satisfaction with the reopening of the Canadian market to imports of Italian raw hams, including those from areas affected by African swine fever (ASF) in restriction zone 2. Italy is the first European country with ASF cases to receive approval from Canada for the export of products from these regions.

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  • 9th case of African swine fever confirmed in S. Korea this year

    South Korea has confirmed its ninth case of African swine fever (ASF) of the year, officials said Sunday. The latest ASF case was found at a pig farm in Hwacheon, some 88 kilometers northeast of Seoul in Gangwon Province. More than 3,500 pigs at the farm will be slaughtered, according to the farm ministry.

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  • ASF Italy: Prosecutor investigates a pig producer and a vet

    The public prosecutor in Pavia province, northern Italy, has opened an investigation to a vet and a pig producer. Both are thought to be involved in the spread of the recent wave of African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks on farms in Northern Italy, news outlet RAI Uno reported.

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  • ASF Italy: Northern Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs

    African Swine Fever (ASF) continues to claim victims on pig farms in northern Italy. Only in the northern regions this year, so far 23 pig farms have been infected in 2024, leading to the culling of tens of thousands of pigs.

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  • African swine fever spread in Europe hits backyard herds, wild boar

    So far this year, total outbreaks in this population are significantly lower than at the same point in 2023, while cases in wild boar have passed 4,600.

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  • Philippines to roll out unproven swine fever vaccine

    The Philippines is under global scrutiny as it proceeds with the controlled rollout of an unproven African swine fever (ASF) vaccine from Vietnam amid doubts from experts about its safety and efficacy.

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  • ASF Germany: Possible infection in Baden-Württemberg state

    Yet another state in western Germany is reporting the likely presence of African Swine Fever (ASF) in its wild boar population. The virus appears to have emerged in a population in Baden-Württemberg.

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  • Germany reports new ASF case in wild boar - ISN

    Germany has detected another case of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar. The case was detected in the state of Hesse in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg. It is the first positive ASF case in the district, according to German pig group ISN. 

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  • ASF Italy: 6 farms infected in 4 provinces in the north

    Not only is Germany fighting with African Swine Fever (ASF), but also in Italy the virus has found its way again to swine farms. In the northern regions, 6 farms have reported infections, with altogether at least 76 infected pigs.

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  • ASF Germany: Numbers of outbreaks grow to 70 in Hesse

    The number of wild boar infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in western Germany keeps increasing. Just before the weekend, the total tally in Hesse state was 48 – just this Tuesday the number had risen to 70.

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  • ASF Germany: Commercial farm with 1,100 finishers infected

    A 2nd pig farm has been infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) in the western German state Hesse, near Frankfurt am Main. This time the virus was found in a commercial finisher farm, having 1,100 pigs on-site.

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  • African swine fever outbreaks spreading in Vietnam

    Vietnam has culled 42,400 infected pigs so far this year.

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  • Germany detects first case of ASF in Rhineland-Palatinate in wild boar

    African swine fever has reached the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which borders Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

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  • ASF Germany: Number of infected wild boar grows to 9

    The authorities in Germany have confirmed that the number of wild boar infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) in the state of Hesse has grown to 9. As a consequence, the infected zone had to be expanded.

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  • France begs Olympic visitors not to bring in ASF

    Since African Swine Fever (ASF) is coming ever closer to the borders of France, the department of agriculture in Paris has intensified its warnings to visitors and foreign workers by asking them to take every possible precaution to prevent the deadly disease from coming into the country.

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  • ASF Germany: 9th farm confirmed infected

    German authorities have reported a 9th pig farm to be infected with African Swine Fever. The virus was confirmed in a finishing farm in the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the country’s north east.

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  • ASF spreads to new region in South Korea

    This was the first outbreak of 2024 and the first case of African swine fever in the Gyeongbuk region.

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