Highlights • #AfricanSwineFever outbreak has caused serious economic losses in China. #Pork supply in consequence faces huge demand. • The small-scale farms in China are encountering difficulties in raising pigs. • A comprehensive procedure was tested in 35 small pig farms that had been confirmed with African swine fever virus. • During a one-year study, 100 percent of porkers and 98.8 percent of sows were healthy respectively. • An effective biosafety procedure was develope

#AfricanSwineFever killed half the pigs in China. There is no vaccine & no treatment. Now it’s in the Caribbean & on the doorstep of the US. As with the Covid pandemic at its start, there is no vaccine—but also as with Covid, there is the glimmer of hope for one, thanks to basic science that has been laying down findings for years without receiving much attention. Two weeks ago, a multinational team led by scientists at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service announced that

#AfricanSwineFever #ASF #agriculture #virology #pigs #pork African swine fever (ASF) outbreak has caused serious economic losses in Asia since 2018. As ASF is a new emerging disease, many farmers hesitate to raise pigs before biosafety procedures were evaluated to be effective. To support small-scale farms in resuming pig production, a comprehensive procedure, called the quadruple protection procedure (QPP), was tested in 35 small farms which had been confirmed with African s