Thousands of pigs in China have been dying since August 2018. The cause is a virus that infects a pig’s macrophages, a type of white blood cell that acts as a warrior against disease-causing invaders.

An international team of scientists has found that a promising African swine fever (ASF) vaccine can protect pigs against some strains of the virus but offers little or no protection against others.

African swine fever virus is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly. There is no commercially available treatment or vaccine for the virus, posing a significant threat to ...

Plum Island Animal Disease Centre NY-USA & Nairobi, Kenya – An international team of scientists has found that a promising African swine fever (ASF) vaccine can protect pigs against some strains of ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) say they have developed a reverse genetics system ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting the commercial rollout of the long-awaited vaccine against African swine fever (ASF) to revitalize the local hog industry from adverse effects of animal ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim, the global No. 2 in animal health, is having to rebuild itself in China after a deadly pig disease decimated sales of unrelated mainstay vaccines, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pigs are seen at a farm outside Hanoi HANOI (Reuters) -African swine fever outbreaks are spreading in Vietnam, threatening to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has been hit by an increasing number of outbreaks of African swine fever, with the number of infected ...

Rockville, Maryland—March 26, 2024—Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have ...