Rome is overrun with infected boars
The wild boars that infest the capital are infected with swine fever. Italy adopts an emergency plan to contain the virus.
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The overpopulation of wild boars in the Rome region pushes them to come and look for food all the way to the center of the capital. Rome, May 11, 2022.
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For Lilia, a resident of Pineto Sacchetti, a residential area in northern Rome, encounters with wild boars are almost daily. “They usually arrive in the late afternoon, around 5 p.m. They quietly rummage through the garbage overflowing from the public bins. They are not afraid of us. If I’m with my dog, I dare not cross the gate of my building for fear that he will attack the wild boars. I don’t want him to be disemboweled.”
“They usually arrive around 5 p.m. and quietly rummage through the garbage overflowing from the public bins. They are not afraid of us.”
