Vietnam exports ASF vaccines

According to Nguyen Van Long, the Director of the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Vietnam will export 2 million doses of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF) to the Philippines and Indonesia from August to October this year.

The authorities of the Southeast Asian nation have confirmed that the vaccine is safe and effective, with 100% of the vaccinated pigs developing an antibody immune response. Vietnam has become the first country to successfully develop and produce two vaccines against ASF.

This disease first appeared in Africa in 1921 and has a mortality rate of up to 100%.