African Swine Fever roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of control strategies for ASF
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Environment
Dependencies
Next steps
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?
The impact of temperature on transmission of African swine fever in contaminated livestock vehicles
Planned Completion date 01/01/2023
Source Countries:
Netherlands
A Multi-Laboratory Comparison of Methods for Detection and Quantification of African Swine Fever Virus.
Planned Completion date 07/03/2022
Source Countries:
Netherlands