Fever Virus,

In 2008, African swine fever was introduced into Geor-gia, after which it spread to neighboring Armenia, Azerbai-jan, and the Russian Federation. That same year, PCR and sequence analysis identifi ed African swine fever virus in samples from 3 dead female wild boars in northwestern Iran. Wild boars may serve as a reservoir. African swine fever (ASF) is a notifi able, highly con-tagious, lethal, hemorrhagic disease in domestic pigs (1,2). ASF virus (ASFV) (International Committee on Tax-onomy of Viruses database no. 00.002.0.01.001), an envel-oped double-stranded DNA virus, is the only known DNA arbovirus (3). Maintenance and transmission of ASFV in-volves cycling of virus between soft ticks of the genus Or-nithodoros and wild pigs (warthogs, bush pigs, and giant forest boars) (1,2). The virus can also be acquired through ingestion of contaminated feed