African Swine Fever roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of control strategies for ASF
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Cost-benefits
Cost-benefits
Research Question
- Good understanding of the real cost, both direct and indirect, of ASF is fundamental to be able to perform a cost benefit
analysis of implementing ASF control strategies
Research Gaps and Challenges
- To better understand the costs (direct and indirect) of ASF, both in epidemic and endemic situations
State Of the Art
- The introduction of ASF into countries outside Africa has had important economic consequences for swine industries. A significant consequence of the introduction of ASF is the loss of status for international trade and the implementation of drastic and costly control strategies to eradicate the disease. In Cuba, the introduction of the disease in 1980s led to a total cost of U.S $9.4 million. In Spain, the final 5 years of the eradication programme
alone were estimated to have cost $92 million. Given the effect on pork production and trade as well as the costs of eradication, it was estimated in 1994 that the net benefit of preventing ASF introduction in the United States would amount to almost $450 million, nearly 5 per cent of the value of total sales of pork products. In endemic countries, ASF has huge economic implications both for the individual farmers, especially the smallholder producers and at national scales
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:
Netherlands
The incursion risk of African swine fever for the Netherlands by human-mediated routes
Planned Completion date 01/01/2022
Source Countries:
Netherlands