Sniffer dogs, drones and electrified fences: Germany is deploying a full array of defences to stop boars from bringing swine fever into the country and avert a disaster for its thriving pork industry.
Farmers first began to worry when swine fever was identified at a pig farm in western Poland in November.But it was the discovery of a boar with the fever near the town of Nowogrod Bobrzanski -- just 40 kilometres from the German border -- that really raised the alarm.In Saarland, near the French border, packs of sniffer dogs are being sent out to find dead boars so as to quickly remove any potential carriers of the virus.
But, fearing that a spread to Germany may be inevitable, Denmark is already putting up a fence along its own 70-kilometre border.
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