doctor linda dixon leads a group that studying african swine fever. asking why horace are very drastic disease of domestic pigs and wild boar. so it kills almost all of the animals that it infects. it's very difficult to control because there's no vaccine and it persists a neat products and i the environment so can be very easily transmitted between picks and cost. for a large i breaks the disease is more resistant to environment of factors than cove it. it can survive for years in frozen carcasses, for example, and several months in processed meat like sausages or ham. so humans can easily pass the virus to bore or pigs through rubbish. this means the disease can spread like wildfire. the current pandemic has been going on for 15 years. in 2018, it had china, african swine fever, killed 40 percent of china's pig population between 20182019. this is where things start to get interesting. with the covered, 19 pandemic. china not only saw a large outbreak of swine fever and 29 gene, it was also where the 1st corona virus cases were reported in humans. in that same year, we asked professo