Keeping ASF at bay at the Danish border

One way to successfully fight African Swine Fever is to make sure that the virus never enters a country. Denmark is keen to keep its doors closed to the virus – it upgraded the compulsory border cleaning and disinfection procedure for trucks and also constructed a fence. A large empty Polish pig truck with three floors enters the ‘Danish’ washing station. Immediately the truck is attended to and the windscreen is properly covered in soap. “That is where most of the dirt is going, so it