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A 240km fence along the German-Polish border was extended last month to prevent wild boars from spreading the disease (Photo: George Hiles)

Swine fever outbreak threatens EU farmers

It is a disease with a high mortality rate, no existing treatment or vaccine, and devastating consequences for society and economies - and it reached Europe years before Covid-19.\n \nYet African Swine Fever, a highly contagious porcine disease that is estimated to have claimed a quarter of the world's pig population last year, has quietly climbed to worrying new levels in 2020.\n \nCases of the viral infection among wild boar on the continent rose in the first quarter by as much as 85 percen...

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Roxane Feller is secretary general of the Brussels-based animal medicines association, AnimalhealthEurope.

A 240km fence along the German-Polish border was extended last month to prevent wild boars from spreading the disease (Photo: George Hiles)

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Roxane Feller is secretary general of the Brussels-based animal medicines association, AnimalhealthEurope.

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