Acknowledgements
We thank all the hunters, veterinarians and individuals, who kept their vigilance and reported dead found wild boar to the authorities. We thank Patrick Zitzow, Ulrike Kleinert, Anja Schulz, Patrick Wysocki, Daike Lehnau and Stephan Eichenberg for their excellent technical assistance and Gernot Schmoock and Lisa Sprague for assisting with MiSeq sequencing. We thank the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture for support.