Alarm in the Rhein-Neckar district: African swine fever spreads!
Alarm in the Rhein-Neckar district: African swine fever spreads!
Laudenbach, Deutschland - The African Swine plague (ASP) is back in the Rhein-Neckar district. As rhein-neckar-kreis.de reported on June 16, 2025, the virus at a freshbone moved in Laudenbach was demonstrated. This well-founded proof is confirmed by the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Fli), which has also documented a positive bone find in the same region. The head of order and health of the Rhein-Neckar district, Doreen Kuss, indicates that further positive cases in the district cannot be ruled out.
Since the first proof of the ASP in August 2024 near Hemsbach, the disease in the region has spread, which requires comprehensive preventive measures. Even in the adjacent district of Bergstrasse, more than 500 cases of ASP were documented, which makes the situation even more complicated. The ASP, a highly contemplative viral infection among wild and domestic pigs, is almost always fatal for the animals and is harmless to humans, as the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture emphasizes.
preventive measures and dynamics of the spread
In the Rhein-Neckar district, numerous restricted zones and fences were set up to prevent the spread of the virus. A total of 22 kilometers of protection fences were set up along larger streets to prevent infected wild boar. Other electrical fences are already being planned to further increase security in the affected areas. The ASP situation is described as extremely dynamic, so the district plans to expand the epidemic control measures while the existing blocking zones remain.
In addition, intensive searches are organized for died wild boars. These activities take place in cooperation with the training center and help Mosbach (TCRH) and local hunters. From the SWR it is known that the Bundesstraße 460 is the last bastion in front of the state and district border, which underlines the need for protective measures.
challenges of animal disease control
The spread of ASP has been observed in Europe since 2014, especially in southeastern countries. In Germany, transfers in several federal states have now been found. Inattentive disposal leftovers and the contact between game and domestic pigs are common transmission paths. The risk of virus also remains for a long time, especially in cooled or frozen meat, which reinforces the challenge for animal disease control.
The more important is the official measures to contain animal disease. In the case of outbreaks, blocking zones are set up and the restrictions on the exhaustion for living animals and their products apply. The situation in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis therefore remains banned, while the local authorities do everything they can to get the pandemic under control and to inform the pig farmers in the best possible way.
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