Bulgaria Reports CSF in Wild Boar

The Bulgarian veterinary authority sent an Immediate Notification to OIE on 15 September.

It describes a young wild boar, which was found dead on 8 September in a popular hunting area at Tutrakan in Silistra in the north of the country, near the border with Romania.

The presence of the CSF virus has been confirmed.

The last outbreak of CSF in Bulgaria was in July 2008.

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