• ASF Italy: Thousands of pigs culled on large farms due to outbreaks

    Over 12,000 domestic pigs on five large farms have been affected by African swine fever outbreaks.

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  • ASF: WOAH warns of risk from use of sub-standard vaccines

    WOAH stresses the importance of the use of only high-quality ASF vaccines with proven efficacy and safety.

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  • Red Flags Cloud AVAC Vaccine’s Registration Bid and Use in Philippines

    Given the loose government control over veterinary drugs unlawfully sold in the countryside, industry stakeholders fear there could soon be a human-induced swine pandemic of disastrous proportion, perhaps far worse than the African swine fever outbreaks the Philippines has seen in the recent past.

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  • African Swine Fever Would Spread Rapidly Through U.S. Pork Industry, Study Finds

    Researchers are warning that, even with control measures quickly put in place, the U.S. pig industry would be impacted significantly by an outbreak of African swine fever, a disease likely to present a mortality rate of up to 100 percent among infected pigs. An outbreak could cost as much as $80 billion as it spreads through the southeastern U.S., the new study in Preventive Veterinary Medicine finds. Worse, because infected animals may be asymptomatic, the disease could quickly spread from farm to farm before it is detected.

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