African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market.
The next step will be nationwide authorization, the first ever for an African swine fever vaccine, and possible sales overseas.
Use of unlicensed live-virus vaccines in China in past years raised concerns they caused the emergence of new strains of swine fever.
Only limited data are available from China’s trials on a live-virus vaccine against swine fever.
NAVETCO, AVAC and Vietnam’s agriculture ministry, which is responsible for approval of veterinary vaccines, did not respond to requests for comment.
Persons:
Gregorio Torres, “, ” Torres, ”, Thomas Vilsack, ” Vilsack, WOAH
Organizations:
World Organization for Animal Health, Reuters, Rabobank, United States Department of Agriculture
Locations:
Vietnam, China, United States