The disease was confirmed in a wild boar shot in the village of Starogród in the commune of Chełmno. In the same village, ASF was confirmed in a herd of pigs on 11 August. Two days earlier, the plague occurred in the neighbouring village of Kałdus. The shot wild boar showed clinical symptoms of ASF. It was shot at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres from the infected farms.
What came first?
Of course, the question arises whether the ASF virus circulating in the local wild boar population was transferred to the pig herds, or whether it was the other way around – the disease escaped into the environment during the elimination of the outbreaks. It is impossible to give a 100% answer to this question and we will probably never know such an answer. However, it seems much more likely that the virus had already circulated in wild boars, from where it transferred to the pig herds. We have observed such a course of events many times, when the shooting and search for carrion introduced after the confirmation of ASF in pigs indicated that the original source of infection was wild boars.
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