Barcelona’s Institute for Research in Biomedicine says wild boar ASF virus strain not a match to 17 strains used in its lab.

Catalan News reports that none of the analysed samples matched the virus from the first two wild boar found dead in ...

Swine fever deaths surge in Spain amid fears of new virus strain - Spain is working to identify and contain its first ...

African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes fatal disease in wild and domestic pigs. Thankfully, ASFV does not cause disease in ...

The number of wild boar infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Barcelona area of Spain continues to rise – up 18 to ...

The search for the origin of the current ASF outbreak in Spain’s wild boar population has taken an unexpected turn. A study ...

On December 11, 2025, the European edition of Nieuwe Oogst announced plans by the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain to reduce the number of wild boars by 37% due to the outbreak of African swine ...

As more and more wild boar populations are sighted in urban areas in Spain, ecologists muse on the cause of this phenomenon. In Malaga, boar sightings have become "very common," according to a police ...

BARCELONA/MADRID, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Spain's Catalonia region has pledged to curb its wild boar population, including by ramping up culls, after African swine fever was detected in several animals ...