The new facilities comply with current standards for the control and containment of African swine fever and each consist of a prefabricated garage equipped with a cold room and appropriate hygiene facilities. Hunters can obtain access authorization from their gamekeeper or from the lower veterinary authority at the Ludwigsburg District Office (Veterinary Office). Dead wild boars can be delivered at any time, even outside the operating hours of the road maintenance depots. It is not possible for private individuals to deliver dead pets. The small animal carcass collection points in Ludwigsburg, Ditzingen, Vaihingen and Marbach are still available for this purpose.
African swine fever is spreading in Europe and has already reached Belgium and areas close to the German border in western Poland. It is a viral disease that causes heavy losses in wild and domestic pigs. An outbreak in Germany means considerable restrictions with serious economic losses for hunting, the affected pig farms and trade in domestic pigs. There is no vaccination against this disease. However, the disease is not transmissible to humans.
