The USDA is ramping up its African Swine Fever preparedness efforts by implementing a heightened surveillance plan. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will work with the swine industry, states, and the veterinary diagnostics laboratories to test for the disease. To make the surveillance testing for ASF effective and efficient, the USDA says it will add it to the current classical swine fever surveillance protocol. Which includes testing samples from high-risk animals, sick or dead pigs at slaughter, and pigs from herd that are at a greater risk for disease through factors as exposure to feral swine or garbage feeding.
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