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DA to start mass trial of ASF vaccine
The Philippine Star
|July 06, 2024
The Department of Agriculture will start the mass trial of the vaccine against African swine fever (ASF), as the DA expects the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve its commercial distribution in the country this month.
“This (mass trial) is a big development in our campaign (against ASF)… We hope that within this year (the trials will be completed) so that we will no longer have problems with ASF,” DA Assistant Secretary and spokesman Arnel De Mesa said in a chance interview yesterday.
De Mesa said the DA will shoulder the expenses for the field trial of the ASF vaccine from Vietnam.
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said the FDA is set to approve within two weeks the country’s first vaccine against ASF for commercial distribution.
Although ASF is not harmful to humans, it has decimated over three million hogs since the country recorded its first confirmed outbreak in 2019.
This story is from the July 06, 2024 edition of The Philippine Star.
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