All Swine Viral Diseases

Viral diseases that mainly affect domestic pigs and wild boar, including African swine fever and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. A disease belongs here when its cited article names pigs as its main host and it does not belong to a virus family heading of its own. Pig herds are often kept in dense units, so infections spread fast through contact, contaminated feed, vehicles and people, and one outbreak can close export markets for a whole country. Control rests on biosecurity, movement controls, surveillance, vaccination where a vaccine exists and culling of infected herds. This heading gathers the swine viral diseases of the atlas so a visitor can compare how each spreads and how each is controlled.