African Pride Safaris Travel Guidebook

The illness is caused by a DNA arbovirus with a number of genotypes from different geographic areas. ASF virus is endemic in most of sub-Saharan Africa and Sardinia, and the virus is spreading through the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and Baltic international locations (Guinat et al., 2016, Sanchez-Vizcaino et al., 2015). ASFV is transmitted by direct contact with contaminated animals, contaminated fomites, feces, ingestion of contaminated feed, and ticks of the genus Ornithodorus (Guinat et al., 2016, Ravamoana et al., 2010). Sonoda, H., Abe, M., Sugimoto, T., Sato, Y., Bando, M., Fukui, E., Mizuo, H., Takahasi, M., Nishizawa, T., Okamoto, H., 2004.