Epidemiology & outbreaks by region

• OIE Regular updates on the global spread of ASF

• Didiza announces African Swine Fever outbreak in the Eastern Cape, Fin24,10/05/2020
• Genetic profile of African Swine Fever Virus Responsible for the 2019 Outbreak in Northern Malawi, ResearchSquare Preptinr, 2020
• Evidence for exposure of asymptomatic domestic pigs to African Swine fever virus during an inter‐epidemic period in Zambia, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 (abstract only)

• Situational updates of ASF in Asia and the Pacific, OIE, 28/5/20
• India informs OIE of African swine fever outbreak, Telegraph India, 24/05/2020
• African Swine Fever, Journal of Veterinary Epidemiology, 2019 (in Japanese)

• Prevalence and Age Structure of African Swine Fever Survivor Animals in the Wild Boar Population During the Epidemic in Estonia, AR Cerbule Thesis, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 2020

  Disease Control & Biosecurity by Region
 

• 14th update on African swine fever activities at FAO, GARA website, 2020
• Culling and carcass removal key to containing African swine fever, model shows, Phys Org, 06/05/2020. See also : Modelling the transmission and persistence of African swine fever in wild boar in contrasting European scenarios, Scientific Reports, 2020
• Will an Incentive-Compatible Indemnity Policy Please Stand Up? Livestock Producer Willingness to Self-Protect, Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 (abstract only)

• Participative modelling of a micro insurance scheme for African swine fever (ASF) in a peri-urban pig farming (PF) in Kinshasa, democratic republic of Congo (DRC), International Journal of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry 2020
• Understanding African swine fever outbreaks in domestic pigs in a sylvatic endemic area: the case of the South African controlled area between 1977-2017, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 (abstract only)
• Impact of participatory training of smallholder pig farmers on knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding biosecurity for the control of African swine fever in Uganda, Transboundary & Emerging Diseases, 2020

• Canada remains vigilant to prevent ASF, Farms, 26/05/2020
• African Swine Fever response plan - The Red Book, USDA, 2020
• Design and Testing of a Cleaning and Disinfection System for Farm Equipment and Vehicles at Livestock Farms, Iowa State University, 2020
• Impacts of Chinese African Swine Fever Losses and Rebuilding on the US Agricultural Sector, L Ahmed, DRAFT GTAP Conference Paper, 2020

• Virtual Meeting of SGE-ASF for Asia, OIE, 21/4/2020
• Australian help for PNG's African swine fever fight, Mirage News, 28/04/2020. See also : International approach key in fighting African Swine Fever, Mirage News, 01/05/2020
• Protecting our pigs from African swine fever, Food Australia, 2020 (abstract only)
• Network Analysis of Swine Shipments in China: The First Step to Inform Disease Surveillance and Risk Mitigation Strategies, Front Vet Sci. 2020
• African Swine Fever in a commercial pig farm: outbreak investigation and an approach for identifying the source of infection (China), Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 (abstract only)
• Panel to guide Assam government on pigs, The Telegraph (India), 04/05/2020
• Assessing the risk of ASFV entry into Japan through pork products illegally brought in by air passengers from China and fed to pigs in Japan, PloS one, 2020
• S. Korea develops ASF test kits, The Korea Herald, 19/05/2020

• Standing Group of Experts on African Swine Fever for Europe, OIE Bulletin, 2020
• FAO launches African swine fever preparedness online course for Europe, FAO, April 2020
• Update of occurrence and hunting yield‐based data models for wild boar at European scale: new approach to handle the bioregion effect, EFSA, 26/5/20
• Automated Processing of Multilingual Online News for the Monitoring of Animal Infectious Diseases, Proceedings of MultilingualBIO 2020
• Biosecurity levels of pig fattening farms from four EU countries and links with the farm characteristics, Livestock Science, 2020 (abstract only)
• ASF Belgium: Hopes for ASF-free status soon, Pig Progress, 29/04/2020
• Unravelling the dispersal dynamics and ecological drivers of the African swine fever outbreak in Belgium, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020 (abstract only)
• Bilan surveillance PPA SAGIR renforce du 16/09/2018 au 13/05/2020, Plate-forme ESA (France), 2020
• Aspects of administration of agricultural wildlife damage and African swine fever,  Welfare, Ethology and Housing Systems, 2019 (in Hungarian)
• African swine fever in Latvian wild boar –a step closer to elimination, Transboundary & Emerging Diseases, 2029
• Latvia Implementation of animal health controls– African Swine Fever, EC Health and Food Audits and Analysis, 2020
• Implications of the national and eu laws concerning the African Swine Fever on the Romanian rural economy, Scientific Papers Series Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020
• Retrospective spatial analysis for African swine fever in endemic areas to assess interactions between susceptible host populations (Sardinia), PLoS One. 2020
• A Tool for Prioritizing Livestock Disease Threats to Scotland, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
• African swine fever news and guidance, NPA UK, 2020
• Disease control strategy for African and Classical Swine Fever in Great Britain, NPA, 2020

 

  Immunology & Vaccines

• A Pool of Eight Virally Vectored African Swine Fever Antigens Protect Pigs Against Fatal Disease, Vaccines, 2020. See also : Pirbright African swine fever vaccine protects 100% of pigs from developing severe disease, Pirbright, 21/5/20
• Absence of long-term protection in domestic pigs immunized with attenuated African swine fever virus isolate OURT88/3 or BeninΔMFG correlates with increased evels of regulatory T cells and IL-10, Journal of Virology, 2020
• Polymorphism analysis and supertype definition of swine leukocyte antigen class I molecules in three-way crossbred (Landrace, Duroc, and Yorkshire) pigs: implications for the vaccine development of African swine fever virus, Sci China Life Sci, 2020

 

  Diagnostics

• A novel multi-epitope recombinant protein for diagnosis of African swine fever, ResearchSquare, 2020
• Rapid on-site detection of African swine fever virus using polymerase chain reaction with a lateral flow strip, Microchemical Journal, 2020 (abstract only)
• Detection of African swine fever virus in cell culture and wild boar tissues using a commercially available monoclonal antibody, Journal of Virological Methods, 2020 (abstract only)
• Evaluation of seven commercial African swine fever virus detection kits and three Taq polymerases on 300 well-characterized field samples, Journal of Virological Methods, 2020 (abstract only)

  Virology

• African Swine Fever Virus: An Emerging DNA Arbovirus, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
• Comparative Pathology and Pathogenesis of African Swine Fever Infection in Swine, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
• Recovery and Chemical Disinfection of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and African Swine Fever Viruses from Porous Concrete Surfaces, Journal of applied microbiology, 2020
• Modulation of Type I Interferon System by African Swine Fever Virus, Pathogens, 2020
• Stability of African swine fever virus on heat‐treated field crops, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (abstract only)

 

Sincerely,

Aline ROUSIER
OIE Documentation Cell