Stockholm – It has been one yr for the reason that first case of African swine fever was confirmed in Sweden.
The Swedish Board of Agriculture has now submitted an utility to the EU Fee with the will to be declared free on the finish of September. It’s the EU member states that finally vote on when Sweden will probably be formally declared free. This could occur on the earliest one yr after the final case.
The affected space was in Fagersta municipality, with massive barricades because of this and restrictions for each the general public and hunters.
A complete of 68 wild boar carcasses constructive for ASF virus have been discovered within the an infection zone, in keeping with the Swedish Nationwide Veterinary Institute. 59 home pigs and 92 wild boars have been euthanized within the zone, however no unfold of an infection has been detected for the reason that finish of September final yr.
“Now we have come significantly additional than we may have imagined at first of the outbreak,” says Madeleine Haal Gertzell, appearing unit supervisor on the Swedish Board of Agriculture’s an infection management unit, in a press launch.
(September 6)
