Infectious Diseases (Animal)

African swine fever is a devastating haemorrhagic viral disease of pigs, affecting domestic and wild pigs of all ages and both sexes (FAO, OiE, and EC, 2019).

Classical swine fever, also known as hog cholera, is a contagious viral disease of domestic and wild swine. It is caused by a virus of the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae (OiE, 2020).

Rinderpest was a disease caused by paramyxovirus in the genus Morbillivirus. It was most commonly observed in domestic cattle and buffaloes. The last confirmed outbreak of rinderpest was in 2001 and the disease was declared to have been eradicated globally in 2011 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).