Title |
Risk of African swine fever introduction into the European Union through transport-associated routes: returning trucks and waste from international ships and planes
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Published in |
BMC Veterinary Research, August 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1746-6148-8-149 |
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Authors |
Lina Mur, Beatriz Martínez-López, José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno |
Abstract |
The uncontrolled presence of African swine fever (ASF) in Russian Federation (RF) poses a serious risk to the whole European Union (EU) pig industry. Although trade of pigs and their products is banned since the official notification in June 2007, the potential introduction of ASF virus (ASFV) may occur by other routes, which are very frequent in ASF, and more difficult to control, such as contaminated waste or infected vehicles. This study was intended to estimate the risk of ASFV introduction into the EU through three types of transport routes: returning trucks, waste from international ships and waste from international planes, which will be referred here as transport-associated routes (TAR). Since no detailed and official information was available for these routes, a semi-quantitative model based on the weighted combination of risk factors was developed to estimate the risk of ASFV introduction by TAR. Relative weights for combination of different risk factors as well as validation of the model results were obtained by an expert opinion elicitation. |
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