China’s Harbin Veterinary Research Institute says its African Swine Fever vaccine is proving to be safe and effective. Nebraska Pork Producers Association Executive Director Al Juhnke says it takes time to develop an effective vaccine and while the Chinese are reporting this, the U.S. is conducting its own vaccine research should the disease ever appear in North America.
He says there are many questions with any vaccine that may be approved including questions with timing and how and where it’s administered.
Earlier this year some U.S. researchers said they found an ASF vaccine that’s 100 percent effective. Juhnke says the University of Nebraska at Lincoln is working in Vietnam on an African Swine Fever vaccine.
U.S. researchers says the availability to farmers and develop of an ASF vaccine is still years away. African Swine Fever is thought to have impacted 40 percent or more of China’s hog herd.
