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In early July, authorities in Brandenburg confirmed eight new ASF cases in wild boar in the Uckermark district, near the town of Schwedt an der Oder, close to the Polish border. All cases were reported between July 7 and July 14.
Experts note that the detection of the virus in this area was not unexpected, as ASF continues to circulate among wild boar populations in neighbouring Poland, just across the border.
According to Top Agrar, all new cases were detected within an existing buffer zone, which should make it easier to contain and control the disease.
Prior to these detections, the last ASF case in Brandenburg had been reported in the spring of 2025. Veterinary authorities were approaching the end of a 12-month period without new cases, which is generally regarded as evidence that the virus has been successfully eliminated from the area.
The situation remains more challenging in the neighbouring federal state of Saxony, which also borders Poland. After more than a year without infections, ASF reappeared on April 1, 2026. Since then, 86 cases have been confirmed in wild boar, most of them between the cities of Görlitz and Bautzen. So far, only one infected wild boar has been detected in July.
Unlike Brandenburg, there is no officially reported circulation of ASF in wild boar immediately across the Polish border in the affected area of Saxony, making the re-emergence of the disease more difficult to explain.
With the new cases in Brandenburg, Germany now has four active ASF zones in wild boar populations. In addition to Brandenburg and Saxony, the virus continues to circulate in the federal state of Hesse near Frankfurt am Main and in North Rhine-Westphalia.
ASF activity in Hesse has declined in recent months, with only seven infected wild boar confirmed during June and July.
A positive trend has also been observed in North Rhine-Westphalia. While 137 cases were reported in April, only 17 have been confirmed so far in July. Nevertheless, since June 2025, a total of 812 ASF-positive wild boar have been recorded in the state.
Despite the continued circulation of the virus in wildlife, spillover into the commercial pig sector has remained limited. Since ASF was first detected in Germany in 2020, the disease has been confirmed on only 19 pig farms, the majority of them located in the federal state of Hesse.
PigUA.info, based on materials from foodagribusiness.world