ArticleTransboundary and emerging diseases2022
Exploring the hurdles that remain for control of African swine fever in smallholder farming settings.
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- African swine fever in the era of global expansion: Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, viral evolution, and One Health control strategies.Veterinary world · 2026Review
- African swine fever control in the context of endemic persistence.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
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- Assessing the adoption of biosecurity measures among extensive livestock producers: a case study in the free-range pig sector of Corsica.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- First Outbreak of African Swine Fever in Sweden: Local Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Eradication Strategies.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- Semiquantitative Risk Evaluation Reveals Drivers of African Swine Fever Virus Transmission in Smallholder Pig Farms and Gaps in Biosecurity, Tanzania.Veterinary medicine international · 2024Article
- 2023 International African Swine Fever Workshop: Critical Issues That Need to Be Addressed for ASF Control.Viruses · 2023Article
- Understanding the interface between European wild boar (Sus scrofa) and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) in Sweden through a questionnaire study.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2023Article
- Innovative Research Offers New Hope for Managing African Swine Fever Better in Resource-Limited Smallholder Farming Settings: A Timely Update.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Limitations and opportunities of smallholders' practical knowledge when dealing with pig health issues in northern Uganda.PloS one · 2023Article
- Review of the Pig-Adapted African Swine Fever Viruses in and Outside Africa.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Exploring the hurdles that remain for control of African swine fever in smallholder farming settings.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- Community engagement strengthens pig disease knowledge and passive surveillance in Timor-Leste.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
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Abstract
To honour the 100 years anniversary of the first publication about African swine fever (ASF) a webinar with a particular focus on disease control in the smallholder sector was organized. This article is based on the webinar, summarizing the early history of ASF research, reflecting on the current global disease situation and bringing forward some suggestions that could contribute towards achieving control of ASF. The first description of ASF by R. Eustace Montgomery in 1921 laid the foundations for what we know about the disease today. Subsequent research confirmed its association with warthogs and soft ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex. During the latter half of the 21st century, exponential growth of pig production in Africa has led to a change in the ASF-epidemiology pattern. It is now dominated by a cycle involving domestic pigs and pork with virus spread driven by people. In 2007, a global ASF epidemic started, reaching large parts of Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Europe, this epidemic has primarily affected wild boar. In Asia, wild boar, smallholders and industrialized pig farms have been affected with impact on local, national and international pig value chains. Globally and historically, domestic pigs in smallholder settings are most frequently affected and the main driver of ASF virus transmission. Awaiting a safe and efficacious vaccine, we need to continue focus on other measures, such as biosecurity, for controlling the disease. However, smallholders face specific challenges linked to poverty and other structural factors in implementing biosecurity measures that can prevent spread. Improving biosecurity in the smallholder sector thus remains an important tool for preventing and controlling ASF. In this regard, interdisciplinary research can help to find new ways to promote safe practices, facilitate understanding and embrace smallholders' perspectives, engage stakeholders and adjust prevention and control policies to improve implementation.
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