I speculate whether a laboratory leak of African Swine Fever is the same common strain of African Swine Fever found generated out in the public? Yikes, The fact that it is a laboratory leak generates more concern to me. Hopefully it wasn't a modified mutated form African Swine Fever it being from a laboratory...
...Something about viruses that escape from laboratory that just seem more dangerous to my layperson's mind. I would like to know what types of research that particular laboratory was actually doing with African Swine Fever.. you know; what types of experiments were being conducted in the lab with the virus right before it made its great escape and leaked?
The article itself says "The research lab where the leak is believed to have started scheduled
two experiments for different strains of the disease for late November".
Yet more remarks found from another article... It appears to be a somewhat novel strain even though it is similar to another vicious strain that wreaked havoc in 2007.. apparently
they (what's another word for
idiots?) weren't able to test their groundbreaking first ever in history experimental vaccine on their experimental creation before it escaped ...
SUMMARY:
SCIENTISTS AT HIGH-SECURITY LAB IN NORTHERN SPAIN ‘EXPERIMENTED WITH AFRICAN SWINE FEVER’
"They added
the current ASF strain is strikingly similar to one that
decimated the swine population in Georgia in 2007.
Scientists at CReSA had been preparing to test a new vaccine involving
modified versions of the Georgia strain on 35 boars in late November, the Commission’s report said."
LINK:
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/12/12/scientists-at-high-security-lab-in-northern-spain-experimented-with-african-swine-fever-when-first-cases-appeared-just-metres-away/"To this day, there are no commercial vaccines or treatments available for the ASF virus, even though the virus was detected almost a century ago..
also another little tidbit of info is ASF virus can also be transmitted via soft ticks that belong to the genus Ornithodoros. In the guts of Ornithodoros ticks, the virus does not cause any disease and can persist for long periods of time"..
Read more about African Swine Fever here..
SUMMARY:
African Swine Fever Virus: A Global Concern
Kanika Khanna, Ph.D.
Published: April 1, 2022
LINK:
https://asm.org/articles/2022/march/african-swine-fever-virus-is-a-global-concernTo play devil's advocate, and keeping an open mind here's one
Virologist that warns swine fever could mutate to threaten humans.
SUMMARY:
The infectuous disease expert spoke out strongly against the public’s sometimes reckless disregard for the monitoring and quarantine measures put into place by state veterinary health authorities in the state-of-emergency territories declared by the government so far.
“ASF is not dangerous now, but it only takes a coincidental combination of conditions for it to become so, and then it’s just a matter of it starting to proliferate,” Kalniņa said.
There are plenty of precedents for a virus to adapt to a new carrier, such as forms of bird flu, however Kalniņa explained that the genome for the ASF virus is more stable, meaning that while mutations could be less likely to develop, they could certainly not be ruled out"
LINK:
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/virologist-warns-swine-fever-could-mutate-to-threaten-humans.a94795/.
