A researcher studying African Swine Fever says it won’t be easy to stop the virus from spreading to other countries and continents.
Dr. Cassandra Jones with Kansas State University believes the ASF virus will eventually find its way here. “Based on how we know that the disease can be spread, its lethality, how easily it can be spread through fomites, I believe it’s not if but when the disease enters the United States.”
Jones tells Brownfield her team’s research focuses on how the African Swine Fever virus could spread or enter the U.S. She says like coronavirus, direct contact with a contaminated pig or pork product is the easiest way to spread the disease, but for the U.S., it’s not the most likely way.
