Editing Classical swine fever (section)

==Epidemiology==
The disease is endemic in much of Asia, Central and South America, and parts of Europe and Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Arzt |s2cid=31753926 |display-authors=etal |title=Agricultural Diseases on the Move Early in the Third Millennium|journal=Veterinary Pathology|date=2010|doi=10.1177/0300985809354350|volume=47|issue=1|pages=15–27|pmid=20080480}}</ref> It was believed to have been eradicated in the United Kingdom by 1966 (according to the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]]), but an outbreak occurred in [[East Anglia]] in 2000.  On January 31, 1978 [[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]] Secretary [[Bob Bergland]] declared that the United States was free of the disease.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pantagraph.com/news/pfop-hog-cholera-ravaged-countryside-in/article_d236203b-d3cf-56d0-a84c-d307b54bdf8e.html|title=PFOP: Hog cholera ravaged countryside in 1913|publisher=[[Pantagraph]]-[[Bloomington, Illinois]]|author=Bill Kemp|date=April 17, 2016|access-date=February 9, 2020}}</ref> The appearance of CSF in Italy and Spain was traced by [[Forensic DNA analysis|in a retroactive genetic analysis]].<ref name="Moennig-et-al-2003">{{cite journal | last1=Moennig | first1=V. | last2=Floegel-Niesmann | first2=G. | last3=Greiser-Wilke | first3=I. | title=Clinical Signs and Epidemiology of Classical Swine Fever: A Review of New Knowledge | journal=[[The Veterinary Journal]] | publisher=[[Elsevier]] | volume=165 | issue=1 | year=2003 | issn=1090-0233 | doi=10.1016/s1090-0233(02)00112-0 | pages=11–20| pmid=12618065 }}</ref> Greiser-Wilke ''et al.'', 2000 traced these to shipments of [[pig#Reproduction|piglets]] from the Netherlands.<ref name="Moennig-et-al-2003" />

Other regions believed free of CSF include Australia, Belgium (1998), Canada (1962), Ireland, New Zealand, and Scandinavia.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}