Apparently, Germany's been having something of a boar problem, with reports of them randomly attacking people, even some guy in a wheelchair. People have been hunting the boars to lower their populations to more manageable levels, and have been finding some of the meat to be radioactive.
The issue comes from the fallout of Caesium-137, the water-soluble, radioactive substance that's polluted the countryside since the Chernobyl reactor IV went critical in 1986 (hundreds of miles away, mind you!). Caesium-137 has managed to pollute the water all the way over in Germany, where it gets picked up by mushrooms. The boars eat the radioactive mushrooms, and thus the mutant boar problem. The German government has been compensating hunters for their contaminated boar meat, and their payouts have quadrupled since 2007 to roughly half-a-million US dollars. This is likely due to a larger boar population, not increase pollution. So, the need for alarm isn't that great, as the problem isn't getting better.
Sorry, but Chernobyl? Violent Radioactive boars? Where have I seen this before...
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