African swine fever continues to spread in Germany and Indiana state veterinarian Dr. Bret Marsh says the inability to contain the disease is concerning. “Unfortunately, the countries around the globe that have dealt with ASF, none of them have been successful in eliminating it,” he says. “It gives us all pause here in the United States as to what that threat could be for us.”
The latest case of ASF was detected in a wild boar in a German state along the Poland border. This brings the wild boar cases to 2,800. The news came shortly after the disease was confirmed in a pig finishing site, where more than 4,000 hogs had to be euthanized.
