A vaccine for African Swine Fever?

Not yet, but there is work going on in southeast Asia that USDA officials call "the most promising vaccine to date".

Dr. Jeff Silverstein with ARS said a company in Vietnam working with US researchers, has come up with a vaccine which has performed well in lab tests so far and the company has recently gotten approval for field tests in Vietnam. 

"If the field studies go well there could be a commercial vaccine in Vietnam in possibly the first half of 2022 [for use in Vietnam]"

But USDA Dr. Jack Shere says the lab tests in Vietnam are not up to U.S. requirements, noting "those tests would have to be done again then field tests would have to be conducted."

And so Dr. Shere says don't expect an African Swine Fever vaccine here for a while.

"It's a two-year process for the most part. I think they could probably speed it up but that's about the time."

That vaccine is designed to prevent the strain of African Swine Fever recently found in the Dominican Republic.

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