420: African Swine Fever - how worried should we be?

<div>African Swine Fever is an incurable disease that is currently spreading between pig populations in Africa, Asia and Europe.<br> <br> It affects domestic pigs and wild boar, and has a mortality rate between 95% and 100%.<br> <br> There is no risk to human health, but the World Organisation for Animal Health says the disease is <a href="https://www.woah.org/en/disease/african-swine-fever/#:~:text=What%20is%20African%20swine%20fever,no%20effective%20vaccine%20against%20ASF.">the biggest threat to commercial pig production the industry has ever seen</a>.<br> <br> In the UK, there have been no reported cases, and the Government says there is a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/african-swine-fever">medium risk</a> of it arriving here.<br> <br> So how are pig farmers and the wider pork industry preparing?  <br> <br> What preventative measures can be taken?  <br> <br> And how well will those industries cope should the disease be detected in the UK?<br> <br> <strong>Guests:<br> Stewart Houston CBE, Chair, Red Tractor Pigs<br> Rebecca Veale, Chief Policy Adviser, the National Pig Association <br> Nick Allen, Chief Executive, the British Meat Processing Association </strong> </div>