Pig movements play a role in the spread of economically important infectious diseases such as the African swine fever.
Pig movement and trade networks were localized and based on close social networks involving family ties, friendships and neighborhoods’.
The networks exhibited good community structure implying close relationships.
Unmonitored trade and pig movement was prevalent across the Kenya–Uganda in both directions.
Most pig sales during ASF outbreaks were to traders or other farmers from outside the sellers’ village at a range of >10 km.