Abstract
VETS play a key role in keeping our country free of notifiable diseases. This is crucial not only for animal health and welfare reasons, but also to prevent devastation to farm businesses, trade and the UK’s economy as a whole. I am writing to raise awareness of an increasing risk of an incursion of African swine fever (ASF) to our pigs. ASF, caused by the virus of the same name, first infected pigs in mainland Europe in 2007. Since then it has advanced into Russia and entered EU member states in eastern Europe in 2014. It then spread in the Baltic states and Poland, and more recently to Moldova, Romania and the Czech Republic. A worrying new development is 17 new outbreaks of the disease in wild boar in Poland, 100 km further west than previously recorded in the country. This represents a considerable geographical ‘jump’ and not only highlights the potential of this virus to spread …
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