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.
This week, the MSHMP tip summarized a publication by Qin et al. regarding the risk of mosquitoes carrying and transmitting African Swine Fever virus.
Key Points
- African swine fever (ASF) continues to pose a large risk in the absence of safe and effective ASF vaccines
- There is evidence indicating that mosquitos may be a possible ASF vector
- Mosquitos captured at ASF positive farms had DNA extracted and tested for ASF with no positive results