The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is hosting its second African Swine Fever (ASF) Action Week from Oct. 10-14, 2022. USDA is encouraging U.S. swine producers, small farms and pig owners to join in and learn about ASF and what they can do to help protect the U.S. swine herd.
ASF has never been detected in the U.S., but since the 2021 detection in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the closest to the U.S. in decades, USDA has partnered with industry and states to enhance already strong safeguards to protect U.S. swine from this costly disease.