Overview
- A wild boar found dead in the Königshainer Bergen tested positive for African swine fever, prompting renewed controls in the Görlitz district.
- The State Directorate set up a high‑risk Zone II covering roughly a 10‑kilometer radius around the site and added a buffer Zone I tied to the protection corridor along the Polish border.
- Crews are conducting intensive searches for carcasses and hunters are targeting wild boar to cut off transmission, according to Social Minister Petra Köpping.
- Pig farms inside the zones were urged to enforce strict biosecurity such as clean clothing, controlled access and feed hygiene, and officials report no domestic herds infected so far.
- The virus kills most infected pigs, does not affect people and has no vaccine, and Saxony recorded 2,399 wildlife cases since 2020 before lifting five‑year curbs late last year.