A laboratory in France has developed a vaccine which is mostly, but not entirely, effective against African Swine Fever.
ANSES’s Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort Laboratory said in a news release that its initial results have been promising.
While using heat to inactivate samples of the Georgia strain of ASF, it detected an attenuated strain which a strain which caused only a slight fever in infected animals, whereas infection with the Georgia strain normally kills all pigs.
Most pigs inoculated intramuscularly or oronasally with the attenuated virus showed only mild symptoms.
Although safety was not perfect, survival was much better than with the original viral strain. the lab said.
