Focus

Vietnam successfully produces vaccine against African swine fever

02 Jun 2022 04:35pm
Pigs are seen in a pen in a farm on the outskirts of Hanoi on June 2, 2022. - Photo: AFP
Pigs are seen in a pen in a farm on the outskirts of Hanoi on June 2, 2022. - Photo: AFP
A
A
A

HANOI - Vietnam has successfully produced a vaccine against African swine fever (ASF), Deputy Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Phung Duc Tien said.

The Navet-ASFVAC vaccine is produced by Navetco National Veterinary Joint Stock Company and is expected to be priced between 34,000 VND to 36,000 VND (US$1.47 to US$1.55) per dose, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported.

According to Tien, although more than 4,000 studies related to the virus and vaccine development by scientists have been published, there has been no commercial vaccine against the disease in the world so far.

To date, no country in the world has announced successful production of a commercial vaccine against disease.

Therefore, the potential for exporting the vaccine produced in Vietnam is huge, VNA quoted him added.

ASF is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs, whose mortality rate can reach 100 per cent. Althought it does not pose danger to human health, it has devastating effects on the pig populations and the farming economy. - BERNAMA

Related Articles:

swine fever
vaccines
More Like This
Nakba Day commemorates the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, when 800,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes during the assault by Zionist military forces that established Israel. Photo by AFP
Nakba Day commemorates the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, when 800,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes during the assault by Zionist military forces that established Israel. Photo by AFP
World Palestinians mark Nakba's 76th anniversary, vow resistance to Israeli expulsion plans
Escalating Israeli army and colonist attacks against Palestinians would not force them to surrender.
Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 13, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 13, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
World Biden admin plans $1 billion in new arms for Israel despite Rafah threat
The Wall Street Journal first reported the new arms package. It said it could potentially include $700 million in tank ammunition and $500 million in tactical vehicles.
Photo for illustration purpose only. - File photo
Photo for illustration purpose only. - File photo
World Delhi police bust serial jewellery thief on flights
Career criminal targets passengers, switches to skies for loot
A city employee is at work to clean the 'Wall of the Righteous' (Mur des Justes) covered with Red hands graffitis outside the Shoah memorial in Paris, on May 14, 2024, after the monument was vandalised overnight with the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) denouncing the act as antisemitic. (Photo by AFP)
A city employee is at work to clean the 'Wall of the Righteous' (Mur des Justes) covered with Red hands graffitis outside the Shoah memorial in Paris, on May 14, 2024, after the monument was vandalised overnight with the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) denouncing the act as antisemitic. (Photo by AFP)
World Paris Holocaust memorial hit with red hand graffiti
May 14 marks the anniversary of the first major round-up of French Jews under the Nazis in 1941.