African Swine Fever in Belgium – a look back

African Swine Fever took Belgium by surprise in September 2018, but luckily it occurred in wild boar, in a part of the country where not many domestic pigs were kept. The country has hopes that by autumn 2020, the status “free from ASF” can be obtained again. On 11 August 2019, a young female wild boar was shot in the forests, about 2.5km southwest of Saint-Léger, Luxembourg province, Belgium. The animal must have been between six months and one year old, and the hunters reported that it a