Eradication strategies of infectious diseases: African swine fever and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)

This publication gives a brief overview of two economically important disea ses that affect the porcine species, Although they are caused by taxonomica lly distant viruses which produce different symptomatology and disease, suc cessful strategies were used for their control and eradication. African swi ne fever (ASE) is included in the list A of OIE, and its importance in Euro pe comes out from the increase of outbreaks in the sub-Saharan countries of Africa in the last years, and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrom e (PRRS), a disease currently not included in the OIE list but nowadays per haps one of the biggest problem in the international animal health. The aut hors review in this paper both diseases and the current strategies used for eradication of ASFV and for the removal of PRRS virus from endemic herds.