Impacts of rodents in piggeries in Australia – review and pilot impact study
Pest Management Science, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 2177-2189, March 2026.Rodent impacts in Australian piggeries are under‐researched, with limited data on economic losses and control costs. A review and pilot study found average losses of AUD$100 000 annually. Key concerns include disease, damage, and control expenses.
Peter R. Brown, Steve Henry
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Scientific Opinion on animal health risk mitigation treatments as regards imports of animal casings [PDF]
, 2012 <p>Salting with NaCl for 30 days is a well-established and accepted procedure in the casings industry and it has been the standard animal health risk mitigation treatment prescribed in EU legislation for many years.
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare
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Agricultural Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT China's pig farming sector is increasingly shifting toward large‐scale and intensive operations, and differences in productivity across farm‐size categories have become crucial for maintaining competitiveness. This paper investigates the changing scale structure of pig production and assesses both static efficiency and dynamic total factor ...
Weiduo Chen, Gang Wu, Shu Wang
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PATHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER DISEASE OUTBREAK IN PIG AT COMMERCIAL FARM SETTING [PDF]
Exploratory Animal and Medical ResearchAfrican swine fever (ASF) is a devastating, contagious viral disease of swine. It is caused by the double stranded DNA virus of the Asfivirus genus belonging to the Asfarviridae family. The present study was conducted to investigate a disease outbreak in
G. Saikumar
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Pathology of porcine peripheral white blood cells during infection with African swine fever virus [PDF]
, 2012 Background African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF) that is the significant disease of domestic pigs. Several studies showed that ASFV can influence on porcine blood cells in vitro.
Zaven Karalyan +8 more
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Classical swine fever: Unveiling the complexity through a multifaceted approach
Open Veterinary JournalClassical swine fever (CSF), sometimes referred to as hog cholera, is a highly contagious, virally-based, systemic illness that affects both domestic and wild pigs.
Aswin Rafif Khairullah +14 more
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First Occurence of African Swine Fever in Serbia
Acta Veterinaria, 2019 Until July 30th, 2019 when the first case of African swine fever (ASF) was confirmed, Serbia was a country free from ASF. After the owner reported atypical illness and death of a sow, the local veterinarian submitted the organ samples to the National ...
Milićević Vesna +5 more
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Serologic Evidence of Brucella and Pseudorabies in Mississippi Feral Swine
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Feral swine (Sus scrofa) are an ever-increasing problem across the United States. Besides physical environmental damage that they cause, they may harbor and transmit a number of pathogens to humans, livestock, and other domestic animals. We sampled feral
Sherman W. Jack +2 more
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Study on the role of the sylvatic cycle of African swine fever in Senegal [PDF]
, 2009 It is generally believed that African swine fever (ASF) virus in Sub-Saharan Africa is maintained in nature by warthogs (Phacochoerus africanus) and soft ticks from the genus Ornithodoros (Penrith et al., 2004).
Akakpo, A.J. +6 more
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African swine fever virus transmission cycles in Central Europe: evaluation of wild boar-soft tick contacts through detection of antibodies against Ornithodoros erraticus saliva antigen. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most complex viral diseases affecting both domestic and wild pigs. It is caused by ASF virus (ASFV), the only DNA virus which can be efficiently transmitted by an arthropod vector, soft ticks of the ...
Beer, Martin +6 more
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