<Anchor> In
Yeongwol, the southern region of Gangwon-do, the dead body of a wild boar with African swine fever continues to be found.
It is far beyond the wide-area fence laid to prevent the spread, but now it is threatening the Chungcheong and the metropolitan area where pig farms are concentrated.
This is reporter Song In-ho.
<Reporter> On
the 6th, a wild boar was found dead in a mountain in Yeongwol, Gangwon-do.
It has been confirmed to be infected with ASF, the African swine fever virus.
In Yeongwol, 8 wild boar carcasses have been confirmed to be infected with ASF for 10 days from the 28th of last month.
It is estimated that the ASF-infected wild boar, which was mainly found in the border area near the civilian control line, moved southward about 100 km through a layered fence.
When even Yeongwol, a clean area of the ASF, was breached, the quarantine authorities caught an emergency.
As you can see in Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do, where wild boar dead bodies are being discovered one after another, fences are being installed in nearby hills to block wild boars.
However, if wild boars infected with ASF move along mountain stalks such as Baekdu-daegan, not only the Chungcheong area, the largest pig farming complex in Korea, but also farms in Gyeonggi-do such as Yeoju, Icheon and Anseong are threatened.
The risk of spreading the ASF virus, especially in wild boar breeding season, is greater than ever.
[Hyeon-gyu Jung/Dodram Pig Pig Research Institute (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine): Normally, from December to winter, wild boars enter the mating season.
In some cases, they travel tens of kilometers per day for mating.
That is why it is a very dangerous time to spread the disease.] The
Ministry of Environment has installed capturing tools along the path of the wild boar and even sent military forces to find the dead boar, but is suffering from heavy snowfall and cold wave.
(Video editing: Park Ji-in, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)