ASF Poland: First farm outbreak in 2025
As in every year, in summertime Poland starts to report outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) in commercial pig herds. The first case on a farm in 2025 was found on June 20, on a farm with 1,311 pigs, in the north of the country.
According to data from the Polish Chief Veterinary Inspectorate The farm is located near Luzino in Pomerania province, at about 50 km north west of port city Gdansk. It is the third farm outbreak in Pomerania province – the first 2 occurred in 2024. It is not unexpected that the first farm outbreak takes place in this region. In the area around Gdansk, the majority of the 2025 infections in wild boar were found.
Ever since the virus entered Poland in 2014, there has been a spike of infections in Poland in the summer months, most likely due to hay and straw being trucked in for pigs. This might pose a biosecurity problem due to fomites being among them. In the whole of Poland, this year now 2,322 wild boar have been found infected. Every year, the tally is around 3,000 to 4,000.
In the context of 11 years of ASF, the current farm’s size of 1,311 pigs is not extreme. Since 2014 there have been 35 infected Polish farms that were larger when the virus emerged. The largest farm that ever got infected in Poland had 23,631 pigs on-site.
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