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African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. [1] It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection.
HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) -The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is warning that more testing of African swine fever vaccines is needed, triggered by Vietnam's plans to export doses in ...
African swine fever outbreaks are spreading in Vietnam and could affect its food supplies and put upward pressure on inflation, according to a government document. "The risk of wider spread of the ...
Vietnam has approved the domestic commercial use of two home-grown vaccines against African swine fever, the government said on Monday, making them the world's first commercial vaccines against ...
African swine fever is a vector-borne disease of domestic pigs, warthogs, and bushpigs, caused by infection with the African swine fever virus and carried by O. moubata. In wild members of the family Suidae, the disease seems symptomless, but in domestic pigs, it causes a haemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates.
Synonyms. Classical swine fever virus[1] Hog cholera virus[2] Hog cholera (European swine fever) virus[3] Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera (also sometimes called pig plague based on the German word Schweinepest) is a highly contagious disease of swine (Old World and New World pigs). [4] It has been mentioned as a potential bioweapon.
HAMBURG (Reuters) -A case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in farm pigs in east Germany, authorities said on Thursday. It was confirmed on a pig breeding farm in Greifswald in the ...
Species African swine fever virus [1] [2] But, there may be more viruses: Abalone asfarvirus [3] [1] Dinodnavirus (Heterocapsa circularisquama DNA virus or hcDNAV) [1] Faustovirus [1] Kaumoebavirus [1] [4] Pacmanvirus [1] [5] Additional genomes known from environmental sampling of diverse marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats [1]