ASF eradication in Czechia confirmed
The Commission will formally adopt the Decision in the coming weeks.
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Boehringer Ingelheim and GNA Biosolutions partner on emergency veterinary diagnostics development
Programme could lead to new diagnostic solutions for African swine fever.
ASF in Belgium: new surveillance areas map
Area I (buffer area) and area II (contaminated area) are extended northwards.
China: almost one million pigs culled due to ASF
The confirmation of two new outbreaks entails that now there are 27 affected regions and that almost 1,000,000 animals have been culled.
Vietnam confirms first ASF cases
The outbreaks are located in Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces.
Bulgaria is still confirming ASF cases
Varna confirms the presence of the disease in a wild boar.
Japan: more than 47,000 CSF-susceptible pigs culled
Since the emergence of CSF in September 2018, more than 47,000 susceptible domestic pigs have been culled.
Canada: Report all wild pig sightings in Manitoba
KAP will lobby the Government of Manitoba to direct resources that will identify and eradicate wild boar populations.
Belgium: ASF gets past the infected area towards the north
Areas I (buffer) and II (infected) will have to be modified.
ASF in Latvia: emergence of less virulent forms
The Latvian isolate shows the natural evolution of the ASF virus, including the emergence of less virulent forms, such as those seen in areas where ASF has been circulating enzootically for a long time.
Infectious dose of ASFV when consumed naturally in liquid or feed
Although greater concentrations of ASF virus were required to cause infection through feed, the high frequency of exposure may make contaminated feed a more significant risk factor.
Is it possible to control the population of wild boar?
Time flies and wild boar breed at a faster rate than our ability to control them.
Two arrested, allegedly related to the introduction of ASF in Belgium
The people under arrest are a forest ranger and a hunt manager suspected of introducing wild boars from Eastern Europe.
China: last version of "ASF Epidemic Emergency Implementation Plan"
On 29 January 2019, MARA released the 2019 edition of the ‘ASF Epidemic Emergency Implementation Plan’.
Poland confirms the first ASF outbreak in domestic pigs in 2019
The disease has been detected on a pig farm in the voivodate of Varmia and Masuria.
ASF in Belgium: more than 400 infected wild boars
As of January 4th, there were already 406 wild boars infected with ASF in Belgium.