African Swine Fever

While much has been accomplished in its 50 years of existence, the Administrator of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Kevin Shea, said efforts to prevent and control pest and disease threats will never really end. For instance, he pointed to efforts to keep African Swine Fever out of our country ...

African Swine Fever is a growing threat, as the disease spreads to countries close to the U.S., but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says there’s still no ready vaccine, so preventing entry here is the best option. The highly contagious, deadly, and economically devastating disease is on the move, now in countries all over the world and as close as the Caribbean. Sec ...

The World Organization for Animal Health this week confirmed finding African swine fever in Haiti. Haiti borders the Dominican Republic, which confirmed the virus was in-country this summer. The farm in Haiti with confirmed African swine fever is near the border ...

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 ... Read

As we told you last week, African Swine Fever was recently discovered in the Dominican Republic. "It's a disease that pigs and pigs only. it doesn't effect man in any way and another other animal species except the swine populations in the world ...

The USDA announced this week that the Dominican Republic has confirmed cases of African swine fever. The cases were confirmed as part of a cooperative surveillance program between the United States and the Dominican Republic. The United States remains free of ASF, an animal disease affecting only pigs with no human health implications, and imports no pork, animal feed or other pork-related product

The Department of Agriculture Thursday announced that an African Swine Fever Virus vaccine candidate has been adapted to grow in a cell line. The announcement means those involved in vaccine production will no longer have to rely on live pigs and fresh cells for vaccine production ...

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According to Reuters, a new form of African swine fever is popping up on Chinese pig farms. The timing is not good for the world’s biggest pork producer that’s still trying to recover from a devastating epidemic. Two new strains of African Swine Fever have infected over 1,000 sows on several farms owned by China’s fourth-largest pork producer. It’s also showin ...

With USMCA on the books, one thing livestock producers will want to watch closely, the cooperation over keeping devastating animal diseases, like African Swine Fever, out of North America. "We are working toward trading agreements and relationships that are made easier by the fact that over our share agreement is in place," said Lisa Rochette, the Assistant Director of swine health wit