African swine fever control in winter seasons in Europe, Asia and America

African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most severe diseases of pigs; it has a drastic impact on the pig industry, causing serious socio-economic consequences to pig farmers and pork producers. Since 2018, it is spreading in China and Southeast Asia, causing billions of damage to the local swine industry.

Now as winter seasons are coming, it is particularly important to control ASF in the infected regions, even the virus appears to be less active than warm seasons. Proper measurements such as keep good hygiene conditions, good ventilation, and air condition, run routine testing of both ASF antibodies and antigens in the herd can be performed. Above all, good biosecurity is most important. Biosecurity is a term used to describe measures that reduce the risk of pathogen spread. Typically, these measures prevent introduction of infection, for example, by quarantining new pigs delivered to farms, changing clothes and disinfecting boots, not feeding kitchen waste (swill) to pigs, using heat treatment to destroy virus, and disinfecting transport trucks.

Control of ASF requires a surveillance system that detects ASF outbreaks as early as possible, as well as the ability to respond to outbreaks quickly and efficiently so that ASFV spread can be prevented and, ideally, eradicated. A key element of ASF control strategies is the early detection of infected domestic and wild pigs. This is important for any infectious disease, but even more so for ASFV, because the virus survives for extended periods in the environment and in pork products. Therefore, any onward spread prior to detection will have a major adverse impact on the ability to contain or stop the spread.

As a professional supplier of animal diagnostic kits, Ringbio has the following products related to ASF testing.

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