TABLE 1.

Summary of the 2012 African swine fever epidemic outside the South African controlled area.

Outbreak report no.	Outbreak report date	Province	Comments	Number of dead pigs†	Number of pigs culled†	Total
1	2012-01-13	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; discovered on post-mortem at abattoir in Gauteng	37	52	89
2	2012-01-18	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	34	2	36
3	2012-01-18	Gauteng	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	42	88	130
4	2012-01-19	Gauteng	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga	73	44	117
5	2012-01-20	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	34	15	49
6	2012-01-20	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	2	92	94
7	2012-01-20	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	1	5	6
8	2012-01-20	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	0	8	8
9	2012-01-20	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records.	0	12	12
10	2012-01-23	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	15	32	47
11	2012-01-25	Gauteng	Bought pigs at auction in Gauteng	10	0	10
12	2012-01-26	Gauteng	Pigs free roaming and scavenge for food	7	2	9
13	2012-02-03	Gauteng	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga	25	14	39
14	2012-02-03	Gauteng	Dead pig brought from neighbouring infected property and owner practises swill feeding	4	17	21
15	2012-02-03	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga; traced via auction records	1	6	7
16	2012-02-28	Mpumalanga	Outbreak in informal settlement where pigs are not formally housed and scavenge for food	196	603	799
17	2012-03-06	Mpumalanga	Bought pigs at auction in Mpumalanga	44	104	148
Total				525	1096	1621

^†, Approximate numbers – where numbers differ from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reports; this is because of the information only becoming available after the OIE report had been made.