DAEJEON, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a technology that can prevent the spread of African swine fever by luring wild boars with the excrement of a female hog.
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced Tuesday that wild boars, main carriers of the disease, can be captured by using the urine and fecal matter from a barnyard pig.
Authorities have been struggling to capture wild boars every season, setting up traps, recruiting hunters, and risking danger in mountainous regions.
The research team scattered the excrement in front of a local yard, and used CCTV cameras and detection sensors to successfully catch a wild boar.
The team carried out a series of experiments on pig farms in Wanju, North Jeolla Province and Okcheon, North Chungcheong Province between February and April, and succeeding in luring between five and seven wild boars in every test.
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