Thousands of pigs in China have been dying since August 2018. The cause is a virus that infects a pig’s macrophages, a type of white blood cell that acts as a warrior against disease-causing invaders.

An international team of scientists has found that a promising African swine fever (ASF) vaccine can protect pigs against some strains of the virus but offers little or no protection against others.

African swine fever virus is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly. There is no commercially available treatment or vaccine for the virus, posing a significant threat to ...

Plum Island Animal Disease Centre NY-USA & Nairobi, Kenya – An international team of scientists has found that a promising African swine fever (ASF) vaccine can protect pigs against some strains of ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) say they have developed a reverse genetics system ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim, the global No. 2 in animal health, is having to rebuild itself in China after a deadly pig disease decimated sales of unrelated mainstay vaccines, ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seek Labs, a healthcare innovations company developing next-generation point-of-care molecular diagnostic systems and novel CRISPR-based pharmaceutical technology, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has been hit by an increasing number of outbreaks of African swine fever, with the number of infected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pigs are seen at a farm outside Hanoi HANOI (Reuters) -African swine fever outbreaks are spreading in Vietnam, threatening to ...