Volume 82 | October 28, 2019

Research Brief: Could ASF Make its Way into the U.S.?

African swine fever (ASF), a disease only contagious in pigs and wild boars, has been spreading across the Caucasus region, Europe and Asia since 2007, but has not yet reached the United States. Since the 2018 outbreak in China, the country has slaughtered an estimated 1,170,000 animals.  Following the recent spread of ASF in Asia and western Europe,  a team of researchers from around the world , including some from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, set out to measure the risk of ASF entering the United States through the smuggling of pork products in air passenger luggage.  Their findings were recently published  in the journal Scientific Reports.

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In the News

US Beef is Headed Back to Japan U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the United States and Japan have agreed on new terms and conditions that eliminate Japan’s longstanding restrictions on U.S. beef exports, paving the way for expanded sales to the United States’ top global beef market. READ MORE Badger Swine Symposium Wisconsin may be known as the dairy state, but ties to swine production in Wisconsin run deep. Historically, immigrant populations demanded pork for the manufacture of sausage and other products, leading to as much as 80% of all Wisconsin farms having pigs on the farm in the early twentieth century. Pig farming looks different today with less total farms that have pigs on them, but raising pigs continues to be an important part of agriculture in Wisconsin. READ MORE

Canadian Pork Producers Prepare for Disease Challenges Animal health and disease outbreak preparedness highlighted the Canadian Pork Council’s fall members’ meeting this week in Ottawa. A large part of the meeting was devoted to strategizing how the industry would respond following an outbreak of African swine fever, according to a Canadian Pork Council press release. READ MORE

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