The first case of African swine fever has appeared in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

On June 15, agricultural officials in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany confirmed on the 14th that the first case of African swine fever had appeared in the state, and the infected animal was a wild boar. The Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Germany's federal agency specializing in animal health, has confirmed that a wild boar carcass found by a hunter in Olper, in the Sauerland mountain region of North Rhine-Westphalia, contained the African swine fever virus, according to the German news agency dpa. African swine fever was originally endemic in Africa, and in recent years, it has spread to Asia, Europe and other places. North Rhine-Westphalia is the latest addition to the list, which first detected cases of African swine fever in Germany in 2020 in the eastern state of Brandenburg, and the virus has since spread to the states of Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg.