Epidemiology & outbreaks by region

• OIE Regular updates on the global spread of ASF

• First detection of African swine fever (ASF) virus genotype X and serogroup 7 in symptomatic pigs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ResearchSquare Preprint, 2020
• Impact of Climate Change on Animal Production and Expansion of Animal Disease: A Review on Ethiopia Perspective, American Journal of Pure and Applied Biosciences, 2020
• African swine fever 'decimating' Nigerian pigs, BBC News, 10/06/2020

• A Fortune from Misfortune: Evidence from Hog Firms' Stock Price Responses to China's African Swine Fever, Iowa State University, 2020
• Transmission of African swine fever in China Through Legal Trade of Live Pigs, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 (abstract only)
• Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects of Swine Industry in Vietnam, Proceeding International Conference on Green Agro-Industry, 2020
• Genetic characterisation of African swine fever virus in outbreaks in Ha Nam province, Red River Delta Region of Vietnam, and activity of antimicrobial products against virus infection in contaminated feed, Journal of Veterinary Research, 2020

• The epidemiological status of African swine fever in domestic swine herds in the Tavush Province region, Armenia, OIE Rev Sci Tech. 2020 (full text online
• Multulayer network approach to African Swine Fever Spread in Poland, Academia, 2020
• Did the pork sector in Romania reached the maximum decline?, Scientific Papers Series - Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020
• Pork market crisis in Romania: pig livestock, pork production, consumption, import, export, trade balance and price, Scientific Papers Series - Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020
• Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Spread of ASF in the Russian Federation in 2017-2019, Acta Veterinaria, 2020

  Disease Control & Biosecurity by Region
 

• African Swine fewer: Lessons to learn from past eradication experiences. A systematic review,  Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 (OIE participated)
• Call for experts to join the OIE’s Specialist Commissions, OIE, June 2020
• GF-TADS ASF website update

OIE Webinars

• Belgian experience in containing ASF outbreaks in wild boar
• European experiences in managing ASF in wild boar
• Europe Lessons learnt in managing and containing ASF in domestic pigs and principals for restocking
• RO Korea experiences in managing ASF outbreaks
• Vietnam’s experiences and challenges to managing ASF in small holder farms by Dr Nguyen Van Long
• China’s approach to ASF outbreak management and decontamination of infected farms/areas
• Outbreak management planning for ASF -the SGE-ASF for Asia by Prof Dirk Pfeiffer
• ASF laboratory response learned from outbreaks

General

• "Can we agree on that"? Plurality, power and language in participatory research, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2020
• Modelling Spatial and Temporal Patterns of African Swine Fever in an Isolated Wild Boar Population to Support Decision-Making, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020. See also Frontiers in Vet Science Research Topic
• Situation Assessment of Collection, Transportation and Environmentally Sound Disposal of Infected Animal and Animal Carcass Caused by Epidemic Diseases and and Pollution Control of Areas where Animal Carcass is Disposed, WorldBank, 2020
• How mechanistic modelling supports decision making for the control of enzootic infectious diseases, Epidemics, 2020
• Pig Farming in Alternative Systems: Strengths and Challenges in Terms of Animal Welfare, Biosecurity, Animal Health and Pork Safety, Agriculture, 2020
• Quality and use of habitat patches by wild boar (Sus scrofa) along an urban gradient, Biologica Futura, 2020
• Prevention of infection in xenotransplantation: Designated pathogen‐free swine in the safety equation, Xenotransplantation, 2020 (abstract only)
• Mitigating the risk of African swine fever virus in feed with antiviral chemical additives, Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 (abstract ony)

Africa

• Pratiques d'élevage de porcs au Sud-Bénin: utilisation des plantes dans la gestion alimentaire et sanitaire, Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences, 2020 (in French)
• Typology of smallholder's pig production systems in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Challenges and opportunities, J. Agr. Rural Develop. Trop. Subtrop., 2020
• South Africa conducts tests to curb African swine fever outbreak, cgtn.com, 30/05/2020
• The SA govt now suggests social distancing for pigs, as African swine fever spreads, Business Insider South Africa, 31/05/2020

Americas

• Application of network analysis and cluster analysis for better prevention and control of swine diseases in Argentina, PloS one, 2020
• A survey of tick surveillance and control practices in the United States, Journal of Medical Entomology, 2020
• Environmental Bioaerosol Surveillance as an Early Warning System for Pathogen Detection in North Carolina Swine Farms: A Pilot Study, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 (abstract only)

Asia

African Swine Fever (ASF) Coordination Virtual Meeting (18 June 2020), Presentations, OIE RR Asia
Regional Workshop for the International Networking of ASF Research in Asia (26-27 Feb 2020, Tokyo, Japan), Programme, Documents and summary

• African Swine Fever Recovery in China, Veterinary medicine and science, 2020
• Big government: The fight against the African Swine Fever in China, Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2020
• China strengthens tracking of hog transport to control animal disease, United News of India, 16/06/2020
• African Swine Fever (ASF): A Threat to Indian Pig Farming, Vigyan Varta 2020
• Stricter Quarantine Measures against Illegal Import of Livestock Products, 大石明子, (in Japanese)
• Quantitative risk assessment of the African swine fever introduction into the Republic of Korea via legal import of live pigs and pig products, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020 (abstract only)
• First steps in managing the challenge of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste, One Health, 2020
• African Swine Fever Research Collaborations Begin in Vietnam, Pork Magazine, 15/06/2020

Europe

European Commission Animal Health Presentations - 18-19 June 2020

• ASF - Belgium
• ASF - Common Agricultural Policy - EC
• ASF - Germany
• ASF - Greece
• ASF - Hungary
• ASF - Italy(Sardinia)
• ASF - Latvia
• ASF - Lituania
• ASF - Poland
• ASF - Romania
• ASF - Slovakia
• ASF Update - EC
• ASF – projects likely affecting Natura 2000 areas – EC
• EURCAW - Animal Welfare - EC

 

• Predicting spread and effective control measures for African swine fever- should we blame the boars?, Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 (abstract only)
• African swine fever: A review of cleaning and disinfection procedures in commercial pig holdings, Research in Veterinary Science, 2020 (abstract only)
• How to Demonstrate Freedom from African Swine Fever in Wild Boar—Estonia as an Example, Vaccines, 2020
• Bilan de la surveillance PPA par le reseau SAGIR du 16/09/2018 au 10/06/2020, Plate-forme ESA (France), 2020
• Risk factors for African swine fever incursion in Romanian domestic farms during 2019, Scientific Reports, 2020
• NPA seeking views on African swine fever insurance, NPA UK, May 14, 2020
• Role and significance of bioasecurity against ASF in the opinions of pig producers, Journal of Animal Science, Biology and Bioeconomy, 2019 (abstract only)

Russia & Central Asia

• Monitoring of the main zoonoses in the North-Western region of the Caucasus, E3S Web of Conferences, 2020

 

  Immunology & Vaccines

• African swine fever vaccines: a promising work still in progress, Porcine Health Management, 2020
• One step closer to African swine fever vaccine, Vet Rec. 2020 (abstract only)
• Vaccine for ASF shows promise in clinical trials, The Pig Site, 15/06/2020
• Clinical trials for African swine fever vaccine see strong progress: developer, Global Times, 10/06/2020
• Deletion of the gene for the type I interferon inhibitor I329L from the attenuated African swine fever virus OURT88/3 strain reduces protection induced in pigs, Vaccines, 2020 (Pirbright Institute)
• A porcine macrophage cell line that supports high levels of replication of OURT88/3, an attenuated strain of African swine fever virus, Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2020 (Pirbright Institute)
• Production of Recombinant African Swine Fever Viruses: Speeding Up the Process, Viruses, 2020
• The African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Topoisomerase II as a Target for Viral Prevention and Control, Vaccines, 2020
• African Swine Fever Virus Multigene Family Genes Inhibit the Type-I Interferon Response by Acting on the NFκB and IRF3 Signalling Pathways at the Transcription Factor Level or below  

  Diagnostics

• A look inside African swine fever testing at vet diagnostic labs, National Hog Farmer, 16/06/2020
• A recombinase polymerase amplification combined with lateral flow dipstick for rapid and specific detection of African swine fever virus, Journal of Virological Methods, 2020
• Rapid and Visual Detection of African Swine Fever Virus Antibody by Using Fluorescent Immunochromatography Test Strip, Talanta, 2020 (abstract only)

  Virology

• Impaired T cell responses in domestic pigs and wild boar upon infection with a highly virulent African swine fever virus strain, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020
• Substitution of warthog NF-κB motifs into RELA of domestic pigs is not sufficient to confer resilience to African swine fever virus, Scientific Reports, 2020 (Pirbright Institute)
• An insight into the transmission role of insect vectors based on the examination of gene characteristics of African swine fever virus originated from non-blood sucking flies in pig farm environments, BMC Vet Res. 2020
• Crystal structure of the African swine fever virus structural protein p35 reveals its role for core shell assembly, Protein Cell. 2020
• The potential anti-African Swine Fever Virus effects of medium chain fatty acids on in vitro pig feed and water models, ResearchSquare Preprint, 2020
• Increased resolution of African Swine Fever Virus genome patterns based on profile HMMs of protein domains, Virus Evolution, 2020
• The C962R ORF of African Swine Fever Strain Georgia Is Non-Essential and Not Required for Virulence in Swine, Viruses, 2020
• Crystal structure of African swine fever virus pS273R protease and implications for inhibitor design, Journal of Virology, 2020 (abstract only)  

Sincerely,

Aline ROUSIER
OIE Documentation Cell