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Significant reduction of African swine fever within the EU

by AI | 20.May 2025 | Europe in brief AI

The number of domestic pigs infected with African swine fever within the EU decreased significantly during 2024, and is at its lowest level since 2017. Among wild boars, the cases remain at the same level as before.

African swine fever in Fagersta, Sweden, 2023. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT

Stockholm – The number of domestic pigs infected with African swine fever within the EU decreased by 83 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year.

In 2024, a total of 333 cases of African swine fever were detected in the EU member states. In 2023, the corresponding figure was 1,929, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The number of cases is the lowest since 2017.

The decrease is mainly due to fewer cases reported from Romania and Croatia. Despite this, Romania accounted for 66 percent of the cases in 2024. No new countries reported disease cases during the year.

The number of disease cases among wild boars in the EU has been roughly the same since 2022. According to EFSA, Poland reported just over 30 percent of the total number of cases in 2024.

In September last year, Sweden was declared free from African swine fever, just over a year after the outbreak in Västmanland in the autumn of 2023. 70 wild boars were infected in Sweden and 116 were culled for disease control reasons, according to the Swedish Board of Agriculture.

(May 20)