“African Swine Fever is a man-made disease”

Is African Swine Fever a threat to Europe’s pig production? The knowledge can be found at Germany’s Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut. For scientists Dr Klaus Depner and Dr Sandra Blome, the virus has few secrets left. “Most problems are a matter of human misbehaviour.” If there is one take-home message to report after having spoken to two of the leading scientists on African Swine Fever, it should be that the major threat with regard to the virus is not the virus itself, but how humans deal w