ARVO VILTROP is a chair professor of veterinary bio- and population medicine at the Estonian University of Life Sciences where he has been teaching epidemiology since 2004. He completed his degree of Doctor of Science in 2002 on the epidemiology of bovine viral diarrhoea. He has been involved in research on the epidemiology of various infections including honey bee, animal and human pathogens. Since 2014, after incursion of African swine fever to Estonia, ASF has become one of his main research topics.