Enhancing passive surveillance for African swine fever detection on U.S. swine farms.

ABSTRACT: As the threat of African swine fever (ASF) introduction into new areas continues, animal health officials and epidemiologists need novel tools for early detection and surveillance. Passive surveillance from swine producers and veterinarians is critical to identify cases, especially the first introduction. Enhanced passive surveillance (EPS) protocols are needed that maximize temporal sensitivity for early ASF detection yet are easily implemented. Regularly collected production and disease data on swine farms may pose an opportunity for developing EPS protocols. To better understand the types of data regularly collected on swine farms and on-farm disease surveillance, a questionnaire was distributed in summer 2022 across multiple channels to MN swine producers. Thirty responses were receive

SUBMITTER: Schambow R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755322 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature