African Swine Fever has been found in another European country. The World Organization for Animal Health or OIE says a wild boar found in the Italian province of Alessandria was found to have the disease on January 7th, and two more carcasses are being tested for the disease. Dr. Paul Sundberg is with the Swine Health Information Center. “They have ASF in wild boars. They haven’t found it in their commercial herds, so that’s an important distinction.”
Sundberg tells Brownfield it will be important to learn exactly how ASF arrived in Italy.
