Romania: This is why swine fever is spreading so fast

Researchers at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Cluj-Napoca say insects could spread African swine fever. According to a report by the media agency Mediafax, researchers at the university, together with experts from two other veterinary institutes in Romania, collected thousands of insects from the infestations between March 2020 and January 2021, MTI said. Examination of the insects has shown that seventy percent of the blood-sucking (hematophagous) insects collected in infected large-scale pig farms have a genetic trace of the PPA virus that causes African swine fever. According to the study, the role of blood-sucking insects in the transmission of infection may ...