Report identifies places where ASF incursion ‘probable’ or ‘unlikely’

A new study has identified 10 places in Latin America and the Caribbean where the risk of African swine fever (ASF) incursion via informal imports is “probable.”

These 10 territories are the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the article, which appears in Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Informal imports were classified by the authors as “non-commercial, unregulated, or semi-covert movement of swine or pork products, including illegal migration.”