Overview
- Thirteen wild boars found outside Barcelona since Nov. 28 have tested positive, with confirmed cases clustered within roughly 6 km of the initial site.
- Sequencing by a Madrid laboratory found the virus very similar to the Georgia 2007 strain commonly used in research and vaccine testing.
- Catalonia ordered audits of five laboratories within about 20 km of the outbreak while keeping all origin hypotheses under review.
- More than 100 personnel from Spain’s military emergencies unit are supporting containment operations alongside police and wildlife rangers.
- Officials report no infections in nearby farms, with roughly 80,000 pigs on 55 holdings in the risk zone deemed healthy as some importing countries pause Spanish pork shipments.