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

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 ...