It’s hot boar summer in Europe
Photo: Neil Burton/Getty Images/iStockphoto Europe is experiencing a hot boar summer. Why? For one thing, it’s crazy hot there, the kind of heat wave that necessitates kiddie pools under tables at restaurants. For another, wild boars are reportedly ransacking the Continent.
Barcelona experienced the height of wild-boar-related incidents in 2016, when police reported 1,187 phone calls citing hogs running loose through the city, eating trash, fighting dogs, causing traffic, and generally inciting chaos. In response, the city has become the gold standard in wild-boar capture, elimination, and prevention, with a team of veterinary scientists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona going so far as to develop a heat map to predict where boars are likely to turn up.
Aside from mucking up municipal infrastructure, boars present the significant drawback of carrying many diseases that could be transmitted to humans, including hepatitis E and influenza A. In response to fears of contagion, most acutely of African Swine Fever, countries across Europe have erected pig borders. Warner writes, “Hog-tight barriers have already been erected along the French/Belgian, Danish/German and Bulgarian/Romanian borders in the past year.
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