U.S. Says It’s Got a ‘Promising’ African Swine Fever Vaccine
- Vaccine has proved 100% effective, American scientists said
- Disease has wiped out millions of pigs around the world
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Government and academic experts in the U.S. have developed a vaccine against African swine fever that’s proved 100% effective, according to the American Society for Microbiology.
Both high and low doses of the vaccine, developed from a genetically modified prior strain of the virus, were effective in pigs when they were challenged 28 days after innoculation, the report said.