The agricultural unions have been partly heard. The Ministry of Agriculture announced on Tuesday, September 17, that it had raised the level of surveillance in Moselle and Bas-Rhin African swine fever, already detected in wild boars in Germany. Of the four existing levels for monitoring wildlife, level 2B is now applied in the two neighboring and border departments.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, this level 2B allows “mobilize more field actors”especially for Better reporting of wild boar carcasses near an infected area, to collect and analyze them. According to the latest bulletin from the French animal disease surveillance platformdated September 10, “the closest case to the border with France remains 78 km away.” This increased surveillance has already been in force since January 2022 in several departments in the South-East.
A call for “massive” searches
On September 11, the FNSEA unions in Moselle and Bas-Rhin had called for the implementation of “massive” roundups wild boars at the border, in the face of the spread of African swine fever, to create “white zones”They also called for increased surveillance on the ground. In its statement, the ministry said it was “in conjunction with representatives of hunters to achieve optimal regulation of wild boars on the border with Germany, as is done in the PACA region”.
African swine fever is a disease that affects pigs, and whose mortality rate is close to 100%. No vaccine is available to date.
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