Over the last fifty years, as the impact of the disease has grown, interest in international coordination has given rise to work on agreed standards on African Swine Fever in the WOAH Code on Terrestrial Animal health. Of specific interest is chapter 15 of the Terrestrial Code (evolving since 1968)
This chapter is not a stand-alone element, it is based on several fundamental concepts contained in the WOAH Code on Terrestrial Animal Health, such as definitions, control of trade, regionalization, compartmentalization, along with surveillance.
Furthermore, Standards have also been designed to harmonise the reliability of diagnostic tests, and for prospective vaccines. They can be found in the WOAH Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals: ASF Chapter
On our Global Website ASF page, Members can find additional general information on the disease and its impact, regular situation reports (twice a month), advice for dedicated groups of stakeholders, and generic awareness raising materials.
On the dedicated page to the Standing Group of Experts on African Swine Fever for Europe, more information can be found on this group aiming at building up a closer cooperation among countries affected by African swine fever (ASF) and thereby, addressing the disease in a more collaborative and harmonized manner across Europe, including reports of the Standing Group on African Swine Fever, reports of the SGE Expert missions to countries affected with ASF, and recommendations of the SGE.
The ASF Technical Card provides more information on the disease, the aetiology of the virus, epidemiology, elements of diagnosis, prevention and control, reference and other information.
The EU webpage on ASF presents elements on the current situation, legislation on disease control measures, and links to the websites of Member States.
FAO Field Manual on ASF contains expert recommendations on the disease, as an aid to emergency preparedness, dating from 2000.
FAO Manual on the preparation of ASF contingency plans, containing the elements of a national contingency plan, from 2001.
FAO African swine fever: detection and diagnosis, a manual for veterinarians (FAO) is available in Albanian, Chinese, English, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian.
From the WOAH ASF reference laboratory, by Dr Vizcaino, a review of the disease, laboratory diagnosis, and diagnosis protocols African Swine Fever (sanidadanimal.info)
EFSA Scientific opinions on ASF: 2010 assessing the risk of spread in the region, still somewhat relevant and 2014, Scientific opinion on the evaluation of possible mitigation measures to prevent introduction and spread of African swine fever virus through wild boar.
FAO: African swine fever in the Russian Federation: risk factors for Europe and beyond, 2013
FAO and WOAH: Good Practices for Biosecurity in the Pig Sector 2010
FAO: Carcass management for small – and medium-scale livestock farms / Practical considerations 2018
FAO Wild boar mapping using population-density statistics, 2018
FAO: Global Platform for African Swine Fever and other important diseases of swine 2013
African Swine Fever in wild boar: ecology and biosecurity in English, a handbook published under GF-TADs in 2019. This handbook contains information on wild boar biology, on biosafety measures while hunting, and on carcass disposal. A WOAH eLearning module is available as well on the WOAH eLearning portal. EN_Manual_ASFinwildboar_2019_Web.pdf (woah.org)
