Re: A thought on why they like ASF's compared to Regular feeders
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Originally Posted by
mcavana
Not trying to hijack the thread or anything.... But as carriers of the plague, and all these other horrible things... How did ASF's get into the country in the first place? Should I be wearing a hazardous materials suite when I go into my garage??? :taz:
Any and all animals *can* carry a wide array of disease. That does not mean that they all do. Dogs can carry rabies, that doesn't mean all dogs have rabies.
We have domesticated ASF's not wild ones, just like we have domesticated rats and mice, not wild ones. The ASF's we have would have to have come in contact with the diseases to become carriers.
I would be more than willing to guess that being around ASF's is safer from a health standpoint than being around rats and mice just based on the amount of urine and feces they produce vs. rats and mice.
