African swine fever (ASF), one of the most complex infectious diseases of livestock is causing problems in Eastern Europe. Despite being considered as an exotic disease, this is not the first time ASF virus (ASFV) is present in the European continent. From 1960 to the mid-1990s ASFV was established in the Iberian Peninsula, and since 1978 the Italian island of Sardinia has been endemic. However, during the last decades ASFV was not present in Europe, with the exception of Sardinia, until the new arrival of the virus to the Georgian coasts in 2007.
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