Abstract
African swine fever (ASF) is a major threat to the pig industry in Europe. Since 2007, ASF outbreaks have been ongoing in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries,...
Highlights
African swine fever (ASF) is a major threat to the pig industry in Europe
Provenance: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed methods/m49/m49regin.htm. (Caucasus includes Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; Eastern Europe includes Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine; and the Baltic states includes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.) ASF virus (ASFV) is generally spread by contact with infectious animals and fomites, ingestion of contaminated pig products and tick bites
Georgia and Russia ASFV strains at 1.4 (95 per cent CI 0.6 to 2.4), This review summarises current knowledge on the transmission 2.8 (95 per cent CI 1.3 to 4.8) (Guinat and others 2016) and 9.8 (95 routes of ASFV to domestic pigs, with a focus on the current situation per cent CI 3.9 to 15.6) (Gulenkin and others 2011), depending on in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries
Summary
Transmission routes of African swine fever virus to domestic pigs: current knowledge and future research directions. Significant knowledge gaps highlight the urgent need for research to investigate the dynamics of indirect transmission via the environment, the minimal infective doses for contaminated feed ingestion, the probability of effective contacts between infectious wild boars and domestic pigs, the potential for recovered animals to become carriers and a reservoir for transmission, the potential virus persistence within wild boar populations and the influence of human behaviour for the spread of ASFV. This will provide an improved scientific basis to optimise current interventions and develop new tools and strategies to reduce the risk of ASFV transmission to domestic pigs.
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