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 ...
Funding This study was supported by funding from European Project H2020 VACDIVA-A Safe DIVA Vaccine for African Swine Fever Control and Eradication, grant agreement no. 862874A and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests. Additional ...
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...
This is all the more important in the case of a disease such as ASF, which is characterised by a high case-fatality rate and for which there is currently no treatment or vaccine (Dixon et al., 2019). Furthermore, the involvement of wild boar, themselves clinically affected by this ...