Emergence of African Swine Fever in China, 2018.
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious disease manifesting clinical symptoms of hemorrhagic fever caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV) and leads to almost 100% mortality in domestic pigs (Galindo and Alonso, 2017, Quembo et al. 2018) Since ASF was first identified in Kenya in the 1920s, it has rapidly spread in Africa and Eurasia and presented as 24 genotypes (Galindo and Alonso, 2017, Quembo et al. 2018) For instance, a genotype II ASFV derived from eastern Africa has resulted in substantial economic losses in many Eastern and Western European countries (van Heerden et al. 2017) This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Transboundary and emerging diseases