Consumers could soon be facing a culinary cataclysm: a cold-cut crisis. Officials in Italy have slaughtered 90,000 pigs over the last two months as African swine fever sweeps over the European nation ...

At least eight bat species commute or forage over pig farms in Northern Italy, and the frequent absence of physical barriers ...

One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows tested positive for African swine fever in late August. Within a week, all 6,200 sows, piglets and fattening pigs on his farm south of Milan were slaughtered under strict ...