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Denmark wants to build a border fence to protect is pigs from ASF

Hygiene & Biosecurity

The Danish authorities are planning to build a 70km-long fence at the border with Germany in order to keep out the wild boars that may carry African swine fever (ASF) and could spread the disease to Danish pig farms.

Posted on Mar 23 ,14:52

Denmark wants to build a border fence to protect is pigs from ASF

 

The widespread of the ASF diseases in the recent period in Eastern Europe has raised causes of concern for Denmark, although the country has never reported a single case in its pig farms. The Danish authorities fear that an outbreak could endanger its 33 billion dollar pig exports.

If an outbreak is to take place in Denmark, the export from this country would be banned by its trading partners from outside the European Union, whereas the EU would ban only the pork exports from the affected area.

According to the Danish executive, the ASF disease has been detected in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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