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African Swine Fever
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- African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral pig disease.
- ASF has spread to 49 countries and resulted in around 1.5 million animal losses since 2021.
- The 49 countries were located in five different world regions of Asia, Africa, Americas, Europe and Oceania.
- The livestock disease was first reported in Kenya in 1921.
- The disease is still prevalent in India, with the most recent cases reported in May and June 2023 from Meghalaya and Mizoram.
- There is no treatment for the disease, some versions can have a 100% mortality rate in certain circumstances.
- It is not the same as swine flu.
- It can be transmitted through direct contact with infected animals.
- It can also spread via insects such as ticks.
- But the virus can also survive several months in processed meat, and several years in frozen carcasses.
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