African swine fever virus is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly. There is no commercially available treatment or vaccine for the virus, posing a significant threat to ...

BEIJING, Feb 25 (Reuters) - New variants of the African swine fever virus circulating in China appear to cause a milder form of the disease, making it less deadly but harder to detect and to bring ...

Pig farmers have a problem. Since it was first detected in Kenya a century ago, African swine fever has spread to over 50 countries worldwide. In China, recent outbreaks have killed an estimated 40% ...

The results confirm that the risk of a wild boar leaving a given area has a negative exponential relationship with the radius ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seek Labs, a healthcare innovations company developing next-generation point-of-care molecular diagnostic systems and novel CRISPR-based gene therapies, announced ...

A future ASF vaccination program must be accompanied by an accurate way to distinguish vaccinated animals from those naturally infected.

The Estonian state plans to create smaller pig farms in the future to protect farmers against African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks, but the continued spread of the disease in Europe and falling pork ...

SEMBACH KASERNE, Germany - Several cases of African Swine Fever have been confirmed in domestic pigs and wild boar across the European continent the past couple of years. African Swine Fever is a ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) say they have developed a reverse genetics system ...

An international team of scientists has found that a promising African swine fever (ASF) vaccine can protect pigs against some strains of the virus but offers little or no protection against others.

A new model looked at the numbers associated with detecting and containing a potential African swine fever virus (ASFV) outbreak in the U.S. and found that sampling and laboratory capacity are areas ...