APHIS has piloted the U.S. Swine Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) to certify participating sites as monitored for African swine fever (ASF) and classical swine fever (CSF) since 2020.

On Tuesday, Oct. 29, the USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratories also confirmed one of the farm’s five pigs to be infected with H5N1, marking the first detection of H5N1 in swine in the U ...