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Featured abstracts of the Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) Scientific Meeting – Part 2

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

The Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) builds global research partnerships to combat African Swine Fever (ASF). Its goals include identifying research gaps, studying ASF’s impact, developing and evaluating control tools, and promoting knowledge sharing. GARA coordinates efforts toward ASF control and eradication. Their latest meeting was held in Rome, Italy, in April 2025. Two selected abstracts from the proceedings are included below.

Featured abstracts of the Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) Scientific Meeting – Part 1

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

The Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) aims to build worldwide research partnerships to tackle African Swine Fever (ASF). Their goals include identifying research opportunities, conducting diverse studies on ASF, assessing its societal and economic effects, developing new tools for prevention and control, evaluating their impact, and acting as a hub for communication and technology sharing in the global ASF research community. GARA fosters a coordinated effort leading to the progressive control and eradication of ASF. Their most recent scientific meetings, the 2025, took place in Rome, Italy, on April 2025. We have selected 2 abstracts from the proceedings book that we have included below.

First Assessment of Weeks-to-Negative Processing Fluids in Breeding Herds after a Senecavirus A Outbreak

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

In this week’s science page Guilherme Preis, Neal R Benjamin, Deborah Murray, Emily Byers Taylor, Samuel Copeland, Grant Allison and Cesar A Corzo share the results of a study looking at the number of weeks processing fluids remain SVA-positive after an SVA outbreak.

Chart 4 PRRS EWMA Review

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

In today’s Science Page, the MSHMP team dives into Chart 4, which shows Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus Exponential Weighted Moving Average.

Space-time dynamics of African Swine Fever spread in the Philippines

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

In today’s Science Page Chia-Hui Hsu and Andres Perez from the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, and Maximino Montenegro from the Pig Improvement Company in the Philippines, examine the spatial and temporal patterns of ASF in the Philippines between 2019 and 2022.