Classical swine fever

Pestivirus C
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Flasuviricetes
Order: Amarillovirales
Family: Flaviviridae
Genus: Pestivirus
Species:
Pestivirus C
Synonyms
  • Classical swine fever virus[1]
  • Hog cholera virus[2]
  • Hog cholera (European swine fever) virus[3]

Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera (also sometimes called pig plague based on the German word Schweinepest) is a highly contagious disease of swine (Old World and New World pigs).[4] It has been mentioned as a potential bioweapon.[5]

  1. ^ Smith, Donald B.; et al. (31 May 2017). "Renaming four species and creating seven new species in the genus Pestivirus". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 21 August 2019. ...Classical swine fever virus becomes Pestivirus C...
  2. ^ ICTV 7th Report van Regenmortel, M.H.V., Fauquet, C.M., Bishop, D.H.L., Carstens, E.B., Estes, M.K., Lemon, S.M., Maniloff, J., Mayo, M.A., McGeoch, D.J., Pringle, C.R. and Wickner, R.B. (2000). Virus taxonomy. Seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Academic Press, San Diego. 1162 pp.
  3. ^ ICTV 6th Report Murphy, F. A., Fauquet, C. M., Bishop, D. H. L., Ghabrial, S. A., Jarvis, A. W. Martelli, G. P. Mayo, M. A. & Summers, M. D.(eds) (1995). Virus Taxonomy. Sixthreport of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Archives of Virology Supplement 10, 590
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Peccary was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Dudley, Joseph P.; Woodford, Michael H. (1 July 2002). "Bioweapons, Biodiversity, and Ecocide: Potential Effects of Biological Weapons on Biological DiversityBioweapon disease outbreaks could cause the extinction of endangered wildlife species, the erosion of genetic diversity in domesticated plants and animals, the destruction of traditional human livelihoods, and the extirpation of indigenous cultures". BioScience. 52 (7): 583–592. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0583:BBAEPE]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0006-3568.