The disease is a highly contagious virus found in pigs and differs from swine flu.
Though the virus cannot be contracted by humans and has no affect on our health, it can devastate entire pig farms due to the disease’s high mortality rate.
The Lazio region’s Department of Health announced that the latest cases have been found in Insugherata Park.
The Italian capital has begun to install nets to deter the growing numbers of wild boar, which have become more dangerous in recent months.
Officials said an anti-swine fever plan was in the works and Health Undersecretary Andrea Costa stated that a “boar cull could be put off no longer”, as the animals were “invading our urban spaces”.
The cases in Rome are the first outside the area of the original outbreak, which occurred in Liguria and Piedmont.
