Overview
- Two wild boar cases have been confirmed by Spain’s reference lab in Algete, with four additional carcasses testing positive in Catalan checks pending national validation.
- Catalan officials reported finding eight more dead wild boar in the Cerdanyola/Collserola area, which will be analyzed to confirm whether they died from African swine fever.
- A 6‑kilometre infected zone is closed to the natural environment across 12 municipalities, with a 20‑kilometre surveillance ring covering 64 municipalities and the Collserola park off‑limits.
- Thirty‑nine pig farms within the wider perimeter are confined, no infections have been detected in domestic herds, and officials reiterate the disease poses no risk to human health.
- Trade has been hit as export certificates are blocked—about one third of 400 to 104 countries, according to the agriculture minister—with Mexico suspending imports and China expected to apply EU‑style regionalization; investigators probe a likely exogenous source as police units and trapping operations intensify, with the UME on the table if needed.