Data published by the European Union's Animal Disease Notification System (ADNS) for the first nine months of this year show a total of 8,567 reported cases in wild boar and 862 outbreaks in domestic pigs. The disease is on the rise in wild boar, where the numbers have exceeded the 2019 totals. It seems to be more controlled in domestic animals, where the number of outbreaks is falling following the peaks of 2018 and 2019, although cases have notably increased during this last quarter (346 outbreaks as of June 2020 vs. 862 at the end of September).

In relation to the cases in wild boar, the most noteworthy information is the first appearance of the disease in Germany. Since the outbreak on September 9, 46 cases have already been confirmed, all of them limited to Brandenburg, specifically to the districts of Spree-Neiße (9), Oder-Spree (36) and Märkisch-Oderland (1).

The disease appears unstoppable in Hungary where the number of cases (3,533) is already double the total of 2019 (1,598). During this last quarter there have been more than 500 new outbreaks confirmed. Hungary is the country with the most cases in the EU, followed by Poland.

During the last 3 months the outbreaks have doubled, reaching a total of 862 compared to the total number of confirmed outbreaks between January and the end of June (346).

Latvia and Slovakia, which had remained without any outbreaks during the first half of the year, have now confirmed 3 and 17 outbreaks respectively.

In three months, Romania has confirmed more than 400 new outbreaks in domestic pigs, and Poland has gone from 6 confirmed outbreaks during the first six months of this year to 97 at present. One of the outbreaks was detected near Kalisz, in the southern part of the Mazovian Voivodship, a region where no previous cases had been confirmed and where there was no need for zoning.