Does the swine fever virus you work with affect any other types of animals ( for example swine flu affected people)?

Question: Does the swine fever virus you work with affect any other types of animals ( for example swine flu affected people)?
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Asked by danrumford to Pamela on 16 Jun 2011.
- Pamela Lithgow answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  Hi Dan,
  No African swine fever does not affect any other animals other than pigs. This is one of the interesting things about it because it can only infect pig cells and we don’t know why (not that we want it to infect other cells!) if we knew what stopped it in other cells we could stop it in pig cells
  Hope that helps.
  Pam

Question: Does the swine fever virus you work with affect any other types of animals ( for example swine flu affected people)?