Combining hunting and intensive carcass removal to eradicate African swine fever from wild boar populations.

ABSTRACT: African Swine Fever (ASF) is a highly lethal viral disease, which affects different species of wild and domestic suids. After its human-caused introduction in Georgia in 2007, the ASF virus has found a new ecological reservoir in the large and continuous wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations of Eurasia, spreading both eastward and westward. ASF has also breached into the intensive pork meat production system. Although the disease has no zoonotic potential, its consequences on wild boar populations and the economic losses for the pig industry have been dramatic. As no vaccine or effective medical treatment is available to reliably protect wild boar or domestic pigs against ASF, eradication efforts are mainly based on intensive wild boar hunting and on removing a significant portion of the infe

SUBMITTER: Gervasi V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127340 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature