The USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration, Vol 18, No 2(28) (2018)

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ASF EVOLUTION AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT IN EUROPE OVER THE PAST DECADE

Adrian Stancu

Abstract


African swine fever (ASF) is a virus that has widely spread in the last years. Even if ASF is a non-human transmission virus. Firstly, this paper emphasizes the main reasons for which the ASFV is deemed a very powerful virus and it presents the international and European organizations which fight against ASF. Secondly, considering the two major ways of transmission of ASF, namely sick animals and vectors, the evolution of the number and date of outbreak was analyzed for both domestic pigs and wild boars in Europe, between 2009 and 2018. Thirdly, the economic impact of ASF was presented. The results showed that ASF virus transmission to domestic pigs was not made by the sick wild boar

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                     Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava                   Faculty of Economics, Administration and Business
 

 

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