Rapid Advice 08-2014 of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Food Safety Agency on the risks of introduction of African Swine Fever in Belgium

Recently, African swine fever (ASF) was introduced in the EU (Lithuania and Poland). Given these circumstances, the Scientific Committee was asked to give a rapid advice on the possible introduction of ASF in Belgium. More specifically, it was asked to identify the risks for the introduction of the ASF virus and to investigate the need for additional measures in order to prevent the introduction of the virus in Belgium and to detect a potential introduction at an early stage. The Scientific Committee has listed all possible ways of introduction of ASF and has assigned them a score according to... Mehr ...