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Environment

Environment

Research Question

  • To better understand the role played by the environmental contamination in the ASF cycle

Research Gaps and Challenges

  • To assess the role played by the environmental contamination in the ASF cycle

State Of the Art

  • The survivability of ASFV in faeces and urine of experimentally infected animals was recently investigated: based on the calculated half-lives it can be assumed that ASFV remains infectious at 37°C for almost four (urine) or three (faeces) days. In a study from 1999, it was shown that at 40°C, the inactivation of ASFV in pig manure is realised after 4 hours, and within 5 minutes at 65°C
  • Studies to assess ASFV inactivation in buried carcasses and soil are on-going but not yet completed. For soil, the pH found in forest seems to be a limiting factor for virus survival

Projects

What activities are planned or underway?

African Swine Fever virus inactivation by feed additives in vitro

Planned Completion date 01/01/2022

Source Countries:

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The incursion risk of African swine fever for the Netherlands by human-mediated routes

Planned Completion date 01/01/2022

Source Countries:

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