controlling the disease has proven to be a challenge, in particular because no vaccine or treatment are available. Spread of ASF can only be prevented by early detection and the application of strict compliance of classical disease control methods, ...
African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating disease caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV) and leads to significant economic losses in the pig farming industry. Given the absence of an effective vaccine or treatment, the mortality rate of ASF is alarmingly close to 100%. Consequently, the ...
The detection of antibodies is always indicative of infection since there is yet no safe commercial vaccine available (4) and should be used for the diagnosis of subacute and subclinical forms of ASF. Moderately virulent ASFV are already currently circulating (5–8). Thes...
This is even more important in the case of a disease such as ASF, involving several types of hosts, characterised by a high case-fatality rate and for which there is currently no treatment or vaccine. Within the framework of the ASF challenge, we proposed a modelling approach based on a ...
One week ago, Secretary Dar announced that trials had begun in the Philippines on an ASF vaccine for pigs. New ASF outbreaks, rising inflation After a period without reporting new outbreaks of ASF, Philippine News Agency (PNA) has recently confirmed that the disease is still present in 19 dis...
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