During the past 3 years, the number of swine was just under 1.2 million. Croatia exported 2,414 live swine and imported 51,190 live pigs in 1997. Croatian world trade in pig meat in 1997 appears in the next table. The main suppliers of live swine to Croatia were Hungary and the Czech Republic, and the major suppliers of pig meat were Hungary, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria and France. Most exports of live swine and pig meat from Croatia went to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Details follow in the next table.
Passenger travel from Croatia to the U.S. is light. Croatian tourists visiting the U.S. accounted for 0.02 percent of global tourists to the U.S. in 1996. There were no nonstop flights from Croatia to the U.S. as of 1997. It is possible that this outbreak in Croatia increases the U.S. risk of importing swine product carrying the viral agent for CSF, however, it is probable that processing has killed the agent. In pork and pork products, the causative viral agent of CSF remains infective for months or years in frozen product.