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Pomellen (dpa) - After four and a half months of construction, the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Forestry Agency today presents the new border protection fence against the introduction of African swine fever.
To this end, State Agriculture Minister Till Backhaus (SPD) wants to put the last fence post on the border with Poland near Pomellen (Western Pomerania-Greifswald).
Work has been going on since mid-July on the approximately 63-kilometer-long barrier that runs from the Uckermark via Pomellen, Linken and Hintersee to Ahlbeck on the island of Usedom.
The fence is intended to prevent infected wild boars from introducing the animal disease, which is harmless to humans, from Poland to northeast Germany.
The animal disease has been rampant in Poland for a long time, especially among wild boars.
On September 10, 2020, African swine fever was officially diagnosed for the first time in Germany, in the south of Brandenburg. Since then, more than 170 cases have been found in Brandenburg in the Oder-Spree, Märkisch-Oderland and Spree-Neisse districts. The neighboring Saxony also reported a few epidemic cases in wild boars. According to the authorities in Germany, domestic pigs have not yet been affected. The disease is harmless to humans and is almost always fatal for wild and domestic pigs. There is no preventive vaccination for the pigs.