swine fever
Pig plague illness
Swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease affecting pigs, causing fever, hemorrhaging, and high mortality rates.
African swine fever and classical swine fever are distinct diseases caused by different viruses, both devastating to pig populations and subject to strict quarantine measures: The outbreak of swine fever led to mass culling of herds.
- pig farmSwine breeding operation
- CSFNeural tissue buffer
- brucellosisBacterial zoonosis from livestock
- contagiousTransmissible between people
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
virus · African · hogs · classical · wild boar · infection · foot and mouth · virulence · disease outbreak · outbreak · culling · slaughter · trade ban · hemorrhagic · pathogen · livestock · pork industry · factory farming
- feversparatyphoid
- pig farmingpigs, hogs, pig farming, pork industry, hog farming
- biosecurityquarantine measures, disease prevention, disease control, pest management, containment measures