Front Page | Asforce

Front Page | Asforce

Welcome to the ASFORCE project

In response to the threat of African Swine Fever (ASF) entry in EU, posed by its spreading in Eastern Europe, the combined effort of 18 partners aim to provide veterinarians, pig farmers and policy makers with practical answers and prevention tools against the disease.

Under coordination and management activities provided by THEME 1, the scientific and technological work plan of the project is organized in four Themes:

Theme 2

To provide essential information to design more cost-effective surveillance and control strategies

Theme 3

To gather data essential to identify risk factors for designing new control strategies including wildlife considerations

Theme 4

To advance work leading to vaccine development

Theme 5

To improve preparedness for ASF at different levels

News and Activities

10 Feb

Publications in scientific journals

So far, the research work developed under the ASFORCE project has led to several key findings, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals as listed below
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30 Sep

Guidelines ASF prevention and control

Guidelines for the cost-effective prevention and control of African swine fever are available on this webpage
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24 Sep

ASFORCE Symposium, Lisbon, September 2015

The project main outcomes of ASFORCE were presented, which was followed by fruitful discussions between some of the ASF world experts, members of the project consortium, and representatives of the veterinary services of several European countries. The program also included key-note pres... read more
23 Sep

Full Consortium Meeting, Lisbon, 22-23 September 2015

The third FCM organized by FMV-ULisboa, was held at the Centro Cultural de Lisboa, on September 22^nd and 23^rd,2015.

Objectives of the meeting
- Presentation and discussion of the achievements attained in the work plan of the ... read more
22 Sep

African Swine Fever Awareness

ASF Awareness Video
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20 Sep

Spread of African swine fever in Eastern Europe and EU countries since 2007

African swine fever (ASF) was first described in Kenya in 1921, from where it rapidly spread to other African countries. Until the present, the ASF virus has escaped repeatedly the African continent. Of special relevance, the incursion of the disease was notified in 2007 in the Caucasus... read more
30 May

Workshop on ASF in Prokrov, Russian Federation

Taking in consideration the relevance of African swine fever as a major threat to pig husbandry, lately enhanced by the disease dissemination in Eastern Europe and to EU countries (Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia), a workshop on African swine feve... read more
22 May

Project Management Team (PMT) meeting, Pokrov, 19-20 May 2015

The fourth and last PMT meeting was held on May 19th - 20th, 2015, at the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology of Russia (VNIIVViM) in Pokrov ( http://www.vniivvim.ru) , Russian Federation.

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30 Mar

Regional Workshops

Two regional workshops for governmental agencies were recently organized under the ASFORCE project, targeting representatives of governmental agencies of EU Member States including countries recently affected by ASF
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22 Oct

Full Consortium Meeting (FCM), Montpellier, 22-24 October

The second FCM was organized by CIRAD and held at Campus Lavalette in Montpellier.
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