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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > General
This manual explains how to diagnose and respond to a case or
outbreak of African swine fever (ASF). It includes general
information on the disease and its causes, including epidemiology,
transmission pathways and geographic distribution. It presents the
different phases chronologically, from detection and diagnosis
(clinical signs, postmortem findings and differential diagnosis) to
laboratory confirmation (main techniques for detecting both virus
and antibodies).African swine fever is a contagious viral disease
that affects pigs of all ages, inducing a haemorrhagic fever. It is
most often recognized in the acute form with an associated
lethality of up to 100 percent, and is a severe threat to pig
production systems. Not only does it threaten food security and
challenge the livelihoods of pig producers and other actors in the
supply chain, but it can have major consequences on international
trade.Since there is currently no effective vaccine or treatment,
the manual suggests that the best strategy for countries/zones that
are still free of the disease is to prevent entry of the virus
through improved border control, awareness-raising and better
biosecurity. Infected countries will also need to be able to
implement quick outbreak controls though movement restrictions and
stamping-out policies.
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