Vietnam: Philippines learns from experience in vaccinating sows against African Swine Fever

Published 2024년 12월 16일

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Vietnam has seen successful large-scale use of the African swine fever vaccine in several provinces, with positive results and Contante Palabrica, the Director of the Department of Animal Health in the Philippines, expressing hope for its use to protect livestock. The Philippine Government has licensed the AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine from Vietnam and ordered 600,000 doses, with initial results showing it to be safe and effective. A survey is being conducted to assess its safety on sows, with the aim to widely use the vaccine nationally after receiving approval from the Vietnamese Government.

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According to Mr. Nguyen Van Diep, General Director of AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company, recent reality shows that the acceleration of the use of African swine fever vaccine on a large scale in many localities has made good progress. Since the beginning of the year, a number of provinces have deployed mass vaccination against African swine fever such as Cao Bang, Lang Son, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, Hai Phong. "The provinces that have deployed mass vaccination against African swine fever have all shown positive results, the vaccine is safe and effective. Typically, in Lang Son, after 2 months of deployment, about 90% of the outbreaks were contained, after 4 months, there were no new outbreaks," Mr. Diep informed. AVAC Vietnam representative said that the results from practice will be an important database source for policy makers, especially domestic and foreign organizations such as the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Source: Agriculture