<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<p>African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease of pigs and wild boars. It presents a serious threat to pig production worldwide, and since 2007, ASF outbreaks have been recorded in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States. In 2014, the disease was detected in Poland. ASF is on the list of notifiable diseases of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Due to the lack of an available vaccine and treatment, the countermeasures against the disease consist in early detection of the virus in the pig population and control of its spread through the elimination of herds affected by disease outbreaks. Knowledge of the potential vectors of the virus and its persistence in the environment is crucial to prevent further disease spread and to understand the new epidemiology for how it compares to the previous experience in Spain gathered in the 1970s and 1980s.</p></abstract>

African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease of pigs and wild boars. It presents a serious threat to pig production worldwide, and since 2007, ASF outbreaks have been recorded in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States. In 2014, the disease was detected in Poland. ASF is on the list of notifiable diseases of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Due to the lack of an available vaccine and treatment, the countermeasures against the disease consist in early detection of the virus in the pig population and control of its spread through the elimination of herds affected by disease outbreaks. Knowledge of the potential vectors of the virus and its persistence in the environment is crucial to prevent further disease spread and to understand the new epidemiology for how it compares to the previous experience in Spain gathered in the 1970s and 1980s.

African swine fever virus – the possible role of flies and other insects in virus transmission

Journal of Veterinary Research

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease of pigs and wild boars. It presents a serious threat to pig production worldwide, and since...

Year	Number of cases	Number of outbreaks
2014	30	2

2015	53	1

2016	80	20

2017	741	81

2018	2,438	109

African swine fever virus – the possible role of flies and other insects in virus transmission

Article Category: Review Article

Published Online: Jan 20, 2020

Page range: 1 - 7

Received: Apr 18, 2019

Accepted: Dec 19, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2020-0001

Keywords
wild boar, African swine fever, soft ticks, vector

© 2020 M. Fila, G. Woźniakowski. published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Fig. 1

Number of ASF cases in Poland in 2014–2018 (9)

African swine fever virus – the possible role of flies and other insects in virus transmission

Article Category: Review Article

Published Online: Jan 20, 2020

Page range: 1 - 7

Received: Apr 18, 2019

Accepted: Dec 19, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2020-0001

Keywordswild boar, African swine fever, soft ticks, vector

© 2020 M. Fila, G. Woźniakowski. published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Fig. 1

Number of ASF cases in Poland in 2014–2018 (9)

Keywords
wild boar, African swine fever, soft ticks, vector