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Bulletin No. 17 - Winter 2003
VirologyClassical Swine Fever
KADEN V, LANGE E, STEYER H, BRUER W, LANGNER CH
Role of birds in transmission of classical swine fever virus.
J. Vet. Med, 2003, Volume 50, 357-359
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The aim of this study was to understand how transmission of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) could have occurred between infected wild boars and domestic pigs during CSF epidemics in wild boars in Germany and more particularly if carrion birds served as vectors for virus spread. Domestic pigs were either in contact with laying hens inoculated with CSFV or fed with feces from contaminated crows and ravens. In both case no active transmission of CSFV was demonstrated. The role of carrion birds in the spread of CSFV is thus unlikely.
