As surprising as it may seem, it is not uncommon to see wild boars rummaging through garbage cans or wandering the streets of Rome… Explanations.
While wild boars have been sighted in Rome, the situation seems to be getting worse. Indeed, some of these animals have a contagious disease, and others have injured some inhabitants. Faced with this situation, the Italian government plans to slaughter the population after at least one wild boar tested positive for contagious African swine fever in the Insugherata nature reserve. Two other individuals are likely also positive, as reported by the public television channel Ray. The main symptoms reported by the United States Department of Agriculture are: high fevers, red or blotchy skin, diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, difficulty breathing and some weakness.
Fortunately, rest assured: the disease does not threaten humans. But that doesn’t mean we’re completely safe from wild boars that roam Italian soil. Indeed, in recent months, residents have reported several cases of pig attacks on people. In certain parts of the north of Rome, municipalities therefore prohibit picnics in the open air and some neighborhoods have even set up curfews to limit wild boar-human contact.
As reported The Guardian, although some wild boars tested positive in the northwestern regions of Piedmont and Liguria earlier this year, this is the first time that specialists have detected African swine fever in live animals near Rome. For now, about 2.3 million wild boar walk around Italy, around 20,000 of them in the Rome region. And, although African swine fever cannot be transmitted to humans, it can infect and even kill commercial pigs raised for food.
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