A spatially-heterogeneous impact of fencing on the African swine fever wavefront in the Korean wild boar population.

ABSTRACT: In October 2019, South Korea's first case of African swine fever (ASF) was reported in wild boar in the north of the country. Despite the implementation of a 2300 km-long fencing strategy, the ASF wavefront continued to invade southward. Our study aimed to investigate the ASF wavefront dynamics in different regions of South Korea, as well as to assess the effectiveness of the fencing measures on ASF dispersal and wavefront velocity. From the nationwide wild boar surveillance system, we extracted 2661 cases, starting from 2 October 2019 (first detection) to 15 September 2022. The cases were categorised into four main spatiotemporal clusters. The average wavefront velocity over the four clusters was estimated at 0.52 km/week, with the cluster in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula exhib

SUBMITTER: Lim JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654197 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature