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Summary: Experimental Infection of Domestic Pigs with an African Swine Fever Virus Field Strain Isolated in 2021 from the Dominican Republic

In today’s Science Page researchers at the USDA share the findings of a project assessing the virulence of an African Swine Fever virus strain isolated in the Dominican Republic in 2021. Thank you to reseachers Ramirez-Medina, O’Donnell, Silva, Espinoza, Velazquez-Salinas, Moran, Daite, Barrette, Faburay, Holland, Gladue, and Borca who worked on these experiments.

African Swine Fever Detected in the Dominican Republic for the first time in 40 years!

Given the recent unfortunate news regarding the detection of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Dominican Republic, we thought that briefly reviewing the history of this virus in the Americas would be relevant to the U.S. industry.  It’s important to remind everyone that this is not the first time ASF has been in the Western … Continue reading “African Swine Fever Detected in the Dominican Republic for the first time in 40 years!”

Rethinking the uncertainty of African swine fever virus contamination in feed ingredients and risk of introduction into the United States

The University of Minnesota shares their quantitative risk assessment framework to estimate the risk of African swine fever virus from imported contaminated feed ingredients, including soybeans and corn.

Ability of different matrices to transmit African swine fever virus – Part 2

For this week we continue with the summarized results from the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) published opinion on the risk of African Swine Fever virus entering into non-affected areas of the EU. Several components were modeled as part of the overall modeling of the relative … Continue reading “Ability of different matrices to transmit African swine fever virus – Part 2”