Awareness of African Swine Fever Detection
African Swine Fever (ASF) is a highly contagious and deadly disease in pigs. Cases of swine deaths due to ASF virus have been found in Indonesia. Therefore, in order to raise awareness regarding the ASF virus, Arasains collaborated with Eurofins Ingenasa conducting a webinar entitled "Awareness of African Swine Fever Detection" in April 14th , 2022.
Dr. Ángela Bononat Sánchez (Product Marketing Manager – Eurofins Ingenasa) as the main speaker in this webinar, she explained the important points of ASF, such as clinical signs, transmission, disease control systems and detection method. She mentioned that ASF is very highly transmissible viral, so all the body fluid and tissues from infected swine can transmit and infected the environment, equipment and feed. This is the reason why ASF is very hard to control. The method of detection for ASF reservoir and swine can used PCR and serological assay such as ELISA or lateral flow