The African swine fever virus isolate Belgium 2018/1 shows high virulence in European wild boar

African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most important and complex viral diseases in domestic pigs and wild boar. Over the last decade, the disease has spread to several European and Asian countries and is now one of the major threats to profitable pig production world‐wide. One of the more recently affected western countries is Belgium. To date, only wild boar are affected in a rather defined area in the Luxembourg region close to France, Luxembourg, and Germany. While detailed sequence analyses were recently performed, biological characterization was still pending. Here, we report on the exp... Mehr ...