Workshop on deploying solutions for using vaccines to prevent African swine fever

This afternoon, March 1, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine (DAH) in collaboration with AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company organized a workshop to deploy solutions for using vaccines to prevent African swine fever in Quang Tri province.

Representative of AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company introduces the research and testing process of AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine used to prevent African swine fever, developed by the company itself - Photo: LA

At the workshop, a representative of AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company introduced the research and testing process of the AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine used to prevent African swine fever, which the company developed itself.

This vaccine has outstanding advantages such as: being weakened by removing toxic genes and growing on DMAC cell culture; only one dose is injected for pigs from 4 weeks of age and older; protection period lasts at least 5 months.

The AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine has been tested and given positive results in more than 10 provinces across the country. In Quang Tri, 370 doses have been injected in a number of households and through sampling and testing for African swine fever antibodies, the results have been good.

Workshop on deploying solutions for using vaccines to prevent African swine fever

Delegates attending the workshop - Photo: LA

According to statistics from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, African swine fever has appeared in the province since the end of February 2019, and the disease has occurred in most communes, wards, and towns. Since the outbreak of the disease, the province has destroyed nearly 66,000 infected pigs with a total destroyed weight of more than 3,460 tons.

The epidemic not only causes heavy economic losses to farmers but also costs localities a lot of money and effort in destroying sick and dead pigs. The consequences include environmental pollution from the burial, a sharp decrease in the total pig herd, high prices of pig breeds, difficulties in repopulating the pig herd after the epidemic, and social security being affected...

Currently, although the epidemic in the province has been controlled since the end of December 2023, the risk of an outbreak of African swine fever is still a constant threat. Therefore, using African swine fever vaccine for pigs at households before the pathogen invades is a safe and effective solution to proactively prevent and control; not causing the spread of the disease in small-scale livestock production conditions in the province.

Le An

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