400 samples of wild boar. This is the number on which the device deployed in the Collserola mountain range in Barcelona works. Trying to contain the spread of African swine fever Which examined the pig sector throughout Spain after discovering two positive cases of this infection.
Sources from the Ministry of Agriculture explained 20 minutes Statistical estimates are made Taking into account the terrain and the number of samples in the area. In this case, within a 6 km radius defined by restrictive measures from the point where the carcasses of infected wild boars were found. “We are working with a projection of about 400 topics.”
Specifies the same sources in the radius 6 kilometers It’s bordered by, not all of it is forest, but there is part of it Urban areaso that it “could reduce the number of estimated samples” in that region. Although the fact that the specified radius includes urban areas also means that these animals are present Good nutrition and this also affects the increase in population. “It is a contradiction that statistics reflect and leads us to think about this number,” they explain.
But the same sources add this This represents a “strategic advantage for containing the disease.”Since these people are accustomed to getting food from containers in urban areas, they do not make large movements as do herds that feed in exclusively natural environments.
Moreover, it is estimated that in The second radius From scratch restrictions that include 20 km surface It affects 64 municipal areas, there may be Population: 1000 samples From this hoof.