According to Nguyen Van Long, the Director of the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Vietnam will export 2 million doses of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF) to the Philippines and Indonesia from August to October this year.
Earlier, the Philippines had imported 300,000 doses of the AVAC ASF LIVE vaccine, which is manufactured by AVAC Vietnam JSC. This vaccine has been administered to pig herds and carefully evaluated in the Philippines.
The authorities of the Southeast Asian nation have confirmed that the vaccine is safe and effective, with 100% of the vaccinated pigs developing an antibody immune response.
Vietnam has become the first country to successfully develop and produce two vaccines against ASF. This disease first appeared in Africa in 1921 and has a mortality rate of up to 100%.
