All you need to know about the outbreak: African swine fever is a highly contagious and fatal viral disease that affects both domestic and wild pigs of all ages. While it poses no risk to humans ...

The fight continues against the invasive spread of wild boar in Alberta and its inherent disease risk and damage to the ...

deadly viral disease affecting domesticated and wild pigs, especially prevalent in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. The work is published in the journal Science Advances. A recent study ...

In Africa, wild meat hunting is driven mostly by protein ... Nile tilapia and African catfish in west and central Africa, cavies (guinea pigs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and bamboo ...

One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg over the weekend, Germany’s agriculture ministry said. The new discovery ...

Quarantine authorities are increasingly on alert for African swine fever (ASF), a ... there have been reported cases of pigs and wild boars being infected with the ASF virus by eating uncooked ...

African swine fever does not infect humans, but its fatality rate is close to total for pigs and wild boars. No effective vaccine exists. Farm ministry officials said the disease was found in ...