INCIDENCE OF TRICHINELLOSIS IN WILD BOAR IN HUNTING AREAS OF OSIJEK-BARANJA COUNTY

The environment of the Osijek-Baranja County's hunting grounds is a potential source of parasitically disease, trichinellosis. In the hounting grounds where wild boar is mostly dwelling, other animals which act as potential disease vectors (rats, foxes, badgers, jackal's etc.), dwells too. Despite of the continuous zoohygienic control, trichinellosis at wild boar has been observed. Their migration out of the hunting grounds makes possible the contact with pigs, which are in extensive breeding, and spreading of disease in both directions is possible. Due to many reasons, of which the war-situation in the recent past is the main, the Osijek-Baranja County become an endemic area for trichinosis. Our research has confirmed trichinellosis at wild boar, so it requires further and continuous monitoring of disease.