the libido of boars and the impact this has on sow fertility. Tshepo Teele of the Center of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at the University of South Africa, has looked at indigenous pig ...

Experts attribute the growing urban boar sightings to an increase in their population. Choi In-bong, head of a rapid response wildlife capture team, said, "Last year’s outbreak of African swine ...

One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg over the weekend, Germany’s agriculture ministry said. The new discovery ...

Quarantine authorities are increasingly on alert for African swine fever (ASF), a pig disease with a nearly 100 percent fatality rate that has spread to almost all areas surrounding Japan.

African swine fever does not infect humans, but its fatality rate is close to total for pigs and wild boars. No effective vaccine exists. Farm ministry officials said the disease was found in ...