African Swine Fever – Review of Scientific Articles (Dec. 4, 2018-Jan. 3, 2019)

Epidemiology & outbreaks by region

Africa

• Re-emergence of genotype I of African swine fever virus in Ivory-Coast, Transbound Emerg Dis. 12/2018 (abstract only)

Asia

• [News] African Swine Fever spreads to 22 provinces in China as year of the pig approaches, ABC, 18/12/18
• World’s Largest Pork Producer in Crisis: China’s African Swine Fever Outbreak, Agricultural Policy Review, Iowa State University, Fall 2018
• Infection of African swine fever in wild boar, China, 2018, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 28/12/2018 (abstract only)
• High probability areas for ASF infection in China along the russian and korean borders, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 12/2018 (abstract only)

Europe

• [News] ASF Belgium: 125 cases; EFSA warns for wild boar, Pig Progress, 10/12/18
• Intra-epidemic genome variation in highly pathogenic African swine fever virus (ASFV) from the country of Georgia, Virology Journal, 2018
• The pork market in Poland in the face of African swine fever (ASF), Zeszyty Naukowe Szkoły Glównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie – Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, 2018 (in Polish)
• African swine fever : history of development, current trends of the disease in Russia, Вестник науки и образования, 2018 (in Russian)
• African swine fever epidemic in 2007–2017, Veterinary Science Today, 2018 (in Russian)

Disease control & biosecurity

• STAR-IDAZ Newsletter, Nov. 2018

Africa

• Sanitary measures in piggeries, awareness, and risk factors of African swine fever in Benue State, Nigeria, Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018
• Comparison of Three Methods to Assess the Potential for Bushpig-Domestic Pig Interactions at the Wildlife—Livestock Interface in Uganda, Front. Vet. Sci., 18 December 2018

Asia

• [News] China cracks down on illegal hog slaughtering to contain African swine fever, Nasdaq, 18/12/18
• [News] China bans raising pigs in wild boar areas to block swine fever, Reuters, 9/12/18
• [News] Taiwan could join regional ASF task force, Taipei Times, 10/12/18 The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) plans to establish an East Asian task force to combat the spread of African swine fever (ASF), which would include Taiwan, the Council of Agriculture said yesterday.
• Prevention, control and vaccine development of African swine fever: challenges and countermeasures, Chinese journal of Biotechnology, 2018 (in Chinese)
• The Impact of Classical Swine Fever and African Swine Fever on Pig Industry, Scientia Agricultura Sinica, 2018 (in Chinese)
• African Swine Fever: A Major Threat to the Chinese Swine Industry, Scientia Agricultura Sinica, 2018 (in Chinese)
• Brief introduction to African swine fever virus and its research at Yangzhou University, Journal of Yangzhou University, Agricultural and Life Sciences Edition, 2018 (abstract on CABI)

Europe (including Eastern Europe & Russia)

• Analysis of hunting statistics collection frameworks for wild boar across Europe and proposals for improving the harmonisation of data collection, EFSA, 13/12/2018
• WPSII-7 New approach to modelling diseases: Temporal patterns of African Swine Fever in the Europen Union (2014–2017), Journal of Animal Science, 2018 (abstract only)
• African swine fever (ASF) in wild boar, Med. Weter, 2018
• Decision of the Council of Ministers of Belarus: “Additional measures for the eradication of ASF and other major animal diseases” (Russian only), 09/2018
• African swine fever – EUVET mission -Belgium, EUVET, 11-12/10/2018
• African swine fever – EUVET mission – France, EUVET, 17-19/10/2018
• PPA : le plan de lutte évolue, Le Point Vétérinaire, 11/2018
• Catches of blood-feeding flies with nzi traps in african swine fever affected areas of Lithuania, Bulletin of the Lithuanian Entomological Society. Volume 2 (30), 2018
• Dzik–zagrożenie ASF i zagospodarowanie mięsa, przegląd hodowlany nr 4/2018 (in Polish)
• Emergency monitoring in Ukraine for 2017 year, Проблеми охорони праці, промислової та цивільної , 2019

Diagnostics, immunology & vaccines

• Evaluation of a viral DNA-protein immunization strategy against African swine fever in domestic pigs, Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 2018
• Evaluation of the protective efficacy of Ornithodoros moubata midgut membrane antigens selected using omics and in silico prediction algorithms, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2018, Vol. 9, No. 5 (abstract only)
• Overcoming the challenges of pen-side molecular diagnosis of African swine fever to support outbreak investigations under field conditions, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 12/2018 (abstract only)

Virology

• Survival of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in various traditional Italian dry-cured meat products, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2018
• Survival of pig viral pathogens, including African swine fever virus, in feed components and in pig slurry, Życie Weterynaryjne, 2018 (abstract on CABI)

Miscellaneous

• Imminent risk of a global shortage of heparin caused by the African Swine Flu afflicting the Chinese pig herd, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 24/12/2018 (abstract only)