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Catalonia Updates Control Zone After 27 Wild Boar Test Positive, Export Access Partially Restored

Officials say surveillance has found no infections on the 55 nearby farms.

Overview

  • Authorities keep a 6 km core perimeter and modify the 20 km restricted area to add Begues, Gavà, Olesa de Bonesvalls and Subirats after a new positive located farther within the core.
  • Confirmed infections in wild boar rise to 27, all within the core area, with 390 animals found or captured and 193 additional carcasses in the wider zone testing negative.
  • Monitoring of the 55 pig farms inside the 20 km zone has detected no symptoms or lesions consistent with African swine fever.
  • The Generalitat reports 78% of export markets have reopened under regionalization, and Japan will accept pork produced before October 29.
  • Three origin probes are ongoing—ministry-led sequencing, a Mossos/SEPRONA judicial inquiry and a Generalitat review that scrutinizes the CReSA lab—while advisers warn surviving boar or carcasses could sustain low-level transmission and prolong control.