[Isolation of the agent of European swine plague from imported frozen wild boar meat]. / Isolierung des Erregers der Europäischen Schweinepest (ESP) aus importiertem gefrorenen Wildschweinfleisch.

Since July 1993 imported frozen meat of wild boars has to be screened for the presence of HCV. The number of taken samples is given by the Ministry of health, sport and consumer protection. Until August 1994 the total number of 688 samples from different countries, have been examined. Three of them were found positive for HCV. The first one (November 1993) was from China, the other two positive samples were sent in one delivery from Romania in May 1994.