African swine fever settles into Asia

Southeast Asia is preparing for a long war against ASF, a highly infectious and lethal disease that reached China in 2018 and has since spread south, threatening both domestic and wild pigs. After plans to eliminate it by euthanizing pigs on a large scale proved economically, logistically, and politically unworkable, authorities throughout the region have recognized that “we’ve got to learn to live with the virus,” says Dirk Pfeiffer, a veterinary epidemiologist at the City University of Hong Kong.