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Suitability of Different Deterrents for Short-Term Reduction of Wild Boar Contacts With Carcasses of African Swine Fever-Infected Animals

Version 1 : Received: 9 October 2020 / Approved: 12 October 2020 / Online: 12 October 2020 (15:31:08 CEST)

How to cite: Denzin, N.; Helmstaedt, F.; Probst, C.; Conraths, F.J. Suitability of Different Deterrents for Short-Term Reduction of Wild Boar Contacts With Carcasses of African Swine Fever-Infected Animals. Preprints 2020, 2020100251. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0251.v1 Denzin, N.; Helmstaedt, F.; Probst, C.; Conraths, F.J. Suitability of Different Deterrents for Short-Term Reduction of Wild Boar Contacts With Carcasses of African Swine Fever-Infected Animals. Preprints 2020, 2020100251. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0251.v1

Abstract

African swine fever (ASF) is a viral infection of pigs and represents a major threat to animal health and trade. Due to the high tenacity of the causative virus also in carcasses of wild boar, contacts of wild boar with infectious carcasses are regarded an important driver of the so-called habitat cycle. The latter is believed to play a major role in maintaining the present ASF situation in wild boar in Europe. Therefore, search campaigns and timely removal and disposal of carcasses are considered important disease control approaches. If timely disposal is not feasible due to logistic reasons, deterrence of wild boar could be a provisionary option. The performance of seven deterrents (physical and chemical) was tested in a forest near Greifswald, Germany. Carcasses as entities of attraction for wild boar were substituted by luring sites. It could be demonstrated that certain physical (LED-Blinkers, aluminum stripes) and chemical (Wildschwein-Stopp™, Hukinol™) deterrents are capable of reducing significantly the odds of wild boar contacts to one third. It is recommended to carry a choice of the aforementioned, reasonable and easy to apply deterrents, when carcass search campaigns are launched in case of an outbreak of ASF in wild boar.

Keywords

African Swine Fever; wild boar; deterrent; carcass, habitat cycle, endemic

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Virology

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