INTERVIEW: ASF is to stay in Europe, says Prof Pejsak

Currently, a dead wild boar is more dangerous than a live one in Eastern Poland, as it is likely the animal will have died of African Swine Fever. These carcasses contaminated by ASFv are the basis of the ongoing spread of ASF in Poland, explains Prof Zygmunt Pejsak – and that’s where most attention should go to in order to control the virus. Don’t have any illusions – African Swine Fever (ASF) will come to Western Europe. It may take 3 years, it may take 10 years before it is confirmed