Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVI, Issue 1
Written by Dimitar TANCHEV, Gergana BALIEVA
African swine fever is a disease that affects representatives from Suidae family and leads to serious economic losses and ecological damage to swine population. A major role in the etiology of the disease is played by wild boars, both as a vector and as a reservoir. Due to this fact, monitoring the spread of the disease among feral pigs is one of the main factors for the prevention of the disease. For this reason, in 2019, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency launched 'Module “Hunt” application. The application allows hunters both easy and quick sending of data on the sample taken from a shot or found dead animal, as well as checking the result just by writing the sample number, while location, date and time of taking the sample are obtained automatically by the application. The current study analyzed both application performance (input, output of data) and data on number of samples taken from hunted feral pigs, percentage positive results from shot animals, proportion of samples taken from wild boars found dead with ratio of positive samples from them.
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