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On August 19, 2023, the Italian National Reference Center for African Swine Fever reported the first case of the disease in domestic pigs in Lombardy.
The sampling date, August 14, 2023, followed a report from a family farm in the municipality of Montebello della Battaglia, province of Pavia, reporting abnormal mortality in finishing pigs (166 animals present).
The municipality was already included in a buffer zone not affected by the disease until now, adjacent to the zone infected by the outbreak in wild boar (part II) in the northwest of the country.
Confirmation from the Reference Center arrived on Friday, August 18, 2023.
The farm, as reported by the Italian authorities, was emptied on August 19 and an epidemiological investigation is being carried out, which for the moment seems to have ruled out contact with wild boars as the source of infection since there are no affected wild boars in this area. Still, a search for dead wild boars in the area is being carried out to try to rule this out completely. The other hypothesis being considered is that the virus has entered through contaminated fomites. To investigate this route, the Italian authorities have taken samples of various materials such as feed, tractor wheels, bedding material, etc. in order to identify the origin of the virus, which currently remains unknown.
August 2023
ASF-National epidemiological bulletin/ Italy.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/
MAPA/ Spain.
https://www.mapa.gob.es/es/ganaderia
