Biosecurity only way to stop ASF

There is no treatment or vaccine for African swine fever (ASF), the only way to keep the virus out of your herd is with strict biosecurity measures, especially external biosecurity, farmers were told at the recent Teagasc Pig Farmers’ Conference.

Never detected in Ireland, ASF has spread to nine EU states — Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and more recently, Belgium.