Genotyping field strains of
African swine fever virus by partial p72 gene characterisation.
Earlier, nine more countries were added to the list of nations banned for importation of processed pork meat products due to suspicions of
African swine fever virus.
African swine fever virus in food brought from overseas, but never
African Swine Fever virus causes a haemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in pigs.
ISLAMABAD -- China has detected the
African swine fever virus in some protein powders made using pork blood and manufactured by a Tianjin-based company, the General Administration of Customs said in a statement on Tuesday.
He said: "The Bucharest Diagnostic and Animal Health Institute confirmed the existence of the
African swine fever virus at TEBU Consult, the second largest farm in Europe where there are 135,000.
BGN 200,000 of the funds are for purchase of tests for early detection of
African swine fever virus (ASFV).
Russia imposed the ban on live pig and pork products in response to what it said was the detection of the
African Swine Fever virus in EU member states Lithuania and Poland.
The ten extended articles here follow suit in their descriptions of research in foot-and-mouth disease viruses, the molecular biology of pestiviruses, arteriviruses, coronavirus replication and interaction with the host, hendra and nipah virus, the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and host range in avian influenza, molecular dissection of the bluetongue virus, molecular biology of porcine circoviruses, molecular biology of animal herpesviruses, and the
African swine fever virus. The final article, an examination of animal virology as a significant piece of evidence about evolution, is particularly interesting.
The EU's Standing Veterinary Committee announced on December 7 that the European Commission had given its blessing to a Portuguese swine fever eradication programme, in the wake of a report of an outbreak of the deadly
African swine fever virus on a farm in the Alentejo region, on November 15.
He is a virologist and leader of ARS'
African Swine Fever Virus Research Unit at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which is set on an 840-acre island in New York's Long Island Sound.