Last week, USDA-trained detector dogs played a major role in the seizure of roughly 1 million pounds of pork smuggled from China where there is an outbreak of African swine fever. The highly contagious and deadly disease affects both domestic and feral (wild) pigs and there is no treatment or vaccine available for it.

Since prevention is the best protection against the disease, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is sharing information about the importance of keeping ASF out of the United States.

To help people learn more about this disease, as well as the steps that can be taken to help protect U.S. pigs, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has updated its web content with additional information and links to partners’ resources. This information is available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animalhealth/swine/asf.

Additionally, USDA is releasing four infographics on the following topics:

USDA is monitoring the recent outbreaks of ASF is Asia and Europe, and has proactively taken steps to increase our safeguarding efforts to keep the disease out of the United States. These steps include:

USDA tracks animal disease outbreaks around the world and remains on high alert.

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