Source: SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 10/16/21


The USDA’s Agriculture Research Service (ARS) just accomplished an important first against one of the world’s deadliest swine diseases. ARS scientists developed a vaccine for African swine fever (ASF) that protects hogs from the ASF strain found in Europe and Asia.  This news couldn’t come at a better time for U.S. pork producers. The lethal swine disease now infects hogs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, just several hundred miles away from U.S. shores. 

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