⁍ The new cases follow six others confirmed in wild boars, not farm animals.
⁍ China and a series of other pork buyers have banned imports of German pork.
⁍ The disease is not dangerous to humans but it is fatal to pigs.
– Six more cases of African swine fever have been confirmed in wild boars in Germany, bringing the total confirmed cases to 13, the country’s federal agriculture ministry said on Friday. The new cases follow six others confirmed in wild boars, not farm animals, in the past week and bring total confirmed cases to 13, the ministry said. Germany’s Friedrich-Loeffler scientific institute confirmed the latest cases. China and a series of other pork buyers have banned imports of German pork in past days after the first case was confirmed, Reuters reports. The disease is not dangerous to humans but it is fatal to pigs and a massive outbreak in China, the world’s biggest pork producer, led to hundreds of millions of pigs being culled.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-swinefever/germany-confirms-6-more-swine-fever-cases-in-wild-boar-idUSKBN2692CU