Weather & Science

Spain Uses Drones and Soldiers to Track Wild Boar Swine Fever Outbreak

Soaring wild boar populations have become a major problem for the European Union’s largest exporter of pork products.

Spanish military personnel carry out protective decontamination of vehicles near Cerdanyola del Valles, on Dec. 3.Photographer: Manaure Quintero/Getty Images

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Spain is deploying soldiers, police dogs and drones on the outskirts of Barcelona to track down wild boars and prevent a swine fever outbreak from spreading to commercial pig farms.