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AFRICAN swine fever (ASF) is an acute, contagious and highly lethal disease of domestic pigs; it is usually acquired in Africa by association with wild swine, especially warthogs, which are regarded as asymptomatic carriers of the causal virus (ASFV)1. Unfortunately the disease gained access to Portugal in 1957 and has since spread to Spain, Italy and, transitorily, to France. In European countries where it has established itself as an enzootic disease of domestic swine, it has caused and continues to cause great economic loss.
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PLOWRIGHT, W., PARKER, J. & PEIRCE, M. African Swine Fever Virus in Ticks (Ornithodoros moubata, Murray) collected from Animal Burrows in Tanzania. Nature 221, 1071–1073 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211071a0
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