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19 wrz 2024 · African swine fever (ASF) is a viral disease of pigs and wild boar that causes high mortality in the affected animals This virus is harmless to humans, but it causes significant socio-economic disruption in many countries.
What is African swine fever? African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating infectious disease of pigs, usually deadly. No vaccine exists to combat this virus. It does not affect humans nor does it affect other animal species other than pigs and wild boars.
African swine fever is a highly contagious haemorrhagic viral disease of domestic and wild pigs, responsible for serious production and economic losses due to its high mortality rate and the control measures implemented by affected countries. It is caused by a DNA virus of the Asfarviridae family.
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. [1] It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs ; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection.
African swine fever is a highly infectious and severe hemorrhagic disease of pigs that produces a wide range of clinical signs and lesions that can closely resemble those of classical swine fever. African swine fever virus (ASFV) has a case fatality rate of up to 100% in domestic pigs and wild boars. The virus is endemic in many African ...
2 paź 2020 · African swine fever (ASF) is a viral hemorrhagic disease with exceptionally high lethality in domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boar. Over the last decade, ASF has emerged in several European and Asian countries and has now an unprecedented distribution.
15 mar 2021 · Update of EU guidelines. The Strategic approach to the management of African swine fever for the EU. (SANTE/7113/2015 - Rev. 13) The Principles and criteria for geographically defining ASF regionalisation. (SANTE/7112/2015 - Rev. 4)
