The latest ADIS weekly notification highlights continued circulation of several important transboundary and emerging animal diseases across Europe and neighbouring countries, with African swine fever (ASF) remaining the most widely reported disease event during the reporting period, dominated by cases in wild boar populations, with new outbreaks reported in Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Spain. Italy reported the highest number of wild boar cases (17 outbreaks), while Croatia and Romania also continued to report outbreaks in domestic pig holdings, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina.
FMD outbreaks continued in Greece, where ten outbreaks were reported on the island of Lesvos affecting cattle, sheep and goats. No new cases were reported in Cyprus. Sheep pox and goat pox also remains a concern in south-eastern Europe. Greece reported 13 new outbreaks across several regions, while additional outbreaks were recorded in North Macedonia and Bulgaria. Romania also notified two outbreaks of peste des petits ruminants (PPR).
As expeced fort he season, H5N1 detections in wild birds were limited and reported from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Denmark, while one outbreak in captive birds was notified in the Netherlands while five new outbreaks of Newcastle disease in birds in Spain were reported. Cases of bluetongue virus serotype 3 in Spain and Greece, and ten notifications of West Nile fever in Italy affecting both birds and equids. Italy also reported a case of enzootic bovine leukosis, while Spain notified a new bovine tuberculosis outbreak.
Further afield, Türkiye reported three anthrax outbreaks in cattle and eight rabies outbreaks involving livestock and dogs, while additional rabies cases were reported in Moldova and Romania. Stay save while travelling with the FVE CPME advice on rabies!
