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Abstract
The effectiveness of oral immunisation of wild boar against classical swine fever
(CSF) was studied in a field trial in Lower Saxony for two years, from 1993 to 1995.
This field study was performed in an area of ca. 270 km(2)50% of young boars did not
feed on vaccine baits nor become immunised. Therefore, an intensive hunting of this
age group is a necessary adjunct to the use of oral vaccination. After the third immunisation
period, no virus was detected in the areas where oral immunisation took place.