Funding
The first author, H. Dhanze, was funded by The World Bank, National Agricultural Higher Education Project for the CAAST sub project entitled ‘Advanced center for livestock health’ (F.No. /NAHEP/CAAST/2018-19/05).
Acknowledgements . We thank the Veterinary Officers of State Animal Husbandry Department, Uttar Pradesh for collection of pig blood samples and associated data. We are grateful to Director, Indian Veterinary Research Institute for assigning the first author to University of Sydney to conduct data analysis for the study.