Reuters, TAUCHE, GermanyThe German state of Brandenburg has erected about 120km of electric fencing to prevent wild boars infected with African swine fever from straying across the border from Poland and infecting its pig herd. “It looks rather inevitable that swine fever will come,” said Daniels, whose farm near Tauche, close to the Polish border, has 11,000 pigs. African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease that kills almost all the pigs it infects, but does not harm humans. “It is difficult to estimate how high the damage will be for German pig farmers,” DBV secretary-general Bernhard Kruesken said. “But we estimate at least a triple-digit million euro sum.”Any export ban on German pork would also have knock-on effects for other European countries.

Source: Taipei Times February 03, 2020 16:07 UTC