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According to an urgent application to the district council, the animal disease crisis plan should be changed accordingly. Foxes, wolves and corvids - including magpies - are to be given priority.

AfD parliamentary group leader Henry Nitzsche (62) refers to the ASP spread dynamics in the district of Bautzen: "The existence of the breeding farms with a total of 80,000 pigs is more than threatened. Therefore, all possible measures must be taken to stop the disease."

The AfD relies on the thesis that other meat and scavengers spread ASF. However, the Friedrich Löffler Institute, which is responsible for combating them, explains that they do not excrete the virus.

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Research found that scavengers also don't spread the flesh. Here the positive role in the disposal of wild boar carcasses is considered.

District Administrator Michael Harig (60, CDU) complained that the district could not decide this alone. The AfD application was transferred to the committee, which should formulate a corresponding appeal to the state government.