Presentation of the final results of the GO PREVPA

Operational Group for the Prevention of African Swine Fever (GO PREVPA) will present its final results in a face-to-face conference that will be held at the national headquarters of ASAJA in Madrid.

El Operational Group for the Prevention of African Swine Fever (GO PREVPA), coordinated by researchers from the Research Group in Health and Biotechnology (SaBio) of the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC – CSIC, UCLM, JCCM), will present the final results of the project on March 14. It will do so at the national headquarters of ASAJA in Madrid, in a day that will begin at 10:00 am and will be free to attend. Places are limited, so applications will be dealt with in strict order of registration.

On March 15, the activity of the Operational Group ends, as it was contemplated since it began its work in 2021. Two and a half years later, Those responsible for this project will present the main results obtained in terms of the prevention of African swine fever (ASF), a highly contagious and devastating disease that if it entered Spain would be an economic disaster for the pig industry.

The opening of the day will be made by the president of ASAJA, Pedro Barato, and the person in charge of the General Sub-directorate of Animal Health and Hygiene and Traceability of the General Directorate of Agricultural Production, Germán Cáceres.

 

Operational Group for the Prevention of African Swine Fever (GO PREVPA) will present its final results in a face-to-face conference that will be held at the national headquarters of ASAJA in Madrid.

Then the final results will be presented according to the three main axes of action of the PREVPA Operating Group. The first of them focused on obtaining a sustainable management of wild boar populations. Dr. Joaquín Vicente, professor at the University of Castilla la Mancha (UCLM) and researcher at IREC, will present the main advances obtained in aspects such as the implementation of effective monitoring systems and the use of a precise methodology to estimate populations of this species based on quality hunting statistics.

On behalf of the pig sector, Manuel González, technical director of the Iberian Pig Interprofessional Association (ASICI), and Daniel Hernández, veterinary technician at the Capa Blanca Pig Agro-Food Interprofessional Organization (INTERPORC) will intervene. Both will talk about the results obtained around the objective of preparing the pig farming sector to reduce the risks associated with wild boar. In this sense, biosafety audits have been carried out in both intensive and extensive pig farms, in addition to other work, all with the aim of providing farmers with the best tools to keep the ASF virus away from their holdings.

Finally, Juan Herrera, technical director of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation, and María Teresa González, director of APROCA Extremadura, will detail everything the work done in terms of knowledge transfer. The GO PREVPA has been carrying out intense training work so that farmers, veterinarians, the hunting community, public administrations and other actors involved are prepared to face the different scenarios that can occur if African swine fever were to enter Spain.

The day will end with a colloquium between attendees and members of GO PREVPA to share all the aforementioned and begin to draw up strategies for the future so that, beyond the work done by PREVPA, they continue to join efforts in the prevention of African swine fever.

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