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The new discoveries bring the total of confirmed cases to 29 since the first one on Sept. 10, all in wild animals, not farm pigs.
All have been found in the region of the first discovery in the Brandenburg area.
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Germany’s Friedrich-Loeffler scientific institute confirmed the latest animals had ASF, the ministry said.
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