"The question is no longer if swine fever will come to Germany but when," Torsten Reinwald, a spokesman for Germany's hunting federation, told AFP. Farmers first began to worry when swine fever was identified at a pig farm in western Poland in November. A sign in Grimma, Saxony advises locals about the outbreak of Swine Fever and not to feed wild boars. There have been several recent outbreaks of African swine fever in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, which have devastated the local pig farming industries. It has been exterminated everywhere except Sardinia" in Italy, said Sandra Blome, a swine fever expert at the Friedrich-Löffler Institute.

Source: The Local December 11, 2019 03:56 UTC