Wild boar health surveillance

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) is collaborating with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) on a surveillance programme for wild boar in Norway with the aim of monitoring the incidence og infectious agents that are transmittable between wild boar, to domestic pigs and to humans.

If you would like to receive sample collection equipment in order to submit samples from wild boar hunted in Norway, please contact your local office of the NFSA or the swine health expert at the NVI Carl Andreas Grøntvedt. 

2023

In 2023, samples from 373 wild boars were submitted to the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, representing approx. 90 % of harvested wild boar, as reported to Statistics Norway (SSB) during the partially overlapping hunting year of 2022/2023. In addition, one harvested wild boar with bruising and subcutaneous bleeding, and one wild boar found dead on the shoreline of a small lake were submitted by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) as a part of passive surveillance for African swine fever virus (ASFV) and classical swine fever virus (CSFV), with no agents detected.