African Swine Fever -- Belgium
Dr. Houdart discussed various options as to how the virus might have got into Belgium - all of them related to human (mis)behaviour, like virus on left-overs or equipment, through a military facility, through the introduction of infected wild boar and, interestingly, he also mentioned intentional introduction. He discussed that over 5000 blood samples of domestic pigs from about 1000 holdings had been analysed. No outbreak so far has been confirmed in domestic pigs in Belgium - hence Belgium
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6525158&promed&0
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