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The US and Canada continue to prepare for the day when this disease may arrive in mainland North America. Photo: Shutterstock

05-09-2022 | Article

North America and Canada keep preparing for ASF

FAO alerted Latin American and Caribbean countries In August 2021 to the need to take preventive measures due to the ASF outbreak amongst domestic pigs in the Dominican Republic and later in Haiti. Photo: FAO

31-08-2022 | News

FAO to support 30,000 small producers in Caribbean against ASF

The USDA's Agricultural Research Service has been reporting another major step forward in the development of a vaccine against ASF virus. - Photo: Dreamstime

28-04-2022 | Article

ASF virus vaccine passes tests for regulatory approval

A worker opens a pig barn near Cevicos, Sánchez Ramírez province, Dominican Republic. - Photo: EPA

25-04-2022 | Interview

ASF Dominican Republic: “We are up against an invisible enemy”

Finisher pigs on a farm in Cevicos, Sánchez Ramírez province, Dominican Republic. The picture was taken in August 2021; at the time of photography at this farm there was no ASF. - Photo: ANP

14-02-2022 | Expert opinion

ASF Dominican Republic: A ticking time bomb

A dead young wild boar that succumbed to ASF a few years ago in the Czech Republic. Photo: Petr Satran, Czech State Veterinary Authority

14-01-2022 | News

ASF Italy: Number of wild boar victims rises to 7

Pathogens, prevention, and personal plans in Pig Progress 10

17-12-2021 | News

Pathogens, prevention, and personal plans in Pig Progress 10

The USDA's ASFv vaccine has been shown to be effective for both European pigs and pigs native in Vietnam protecting against the circulating Vietnamese ASFv strain. Photo: Kenneth Schipper Vera

30-09-2021 | News

ASF Vietnam: Experimental vaccine proves efficacy

ASF Dominican Republic: Virus spreads to east, south

27-08-2021 | News

ASF Dominican Republic: Virus spreads to east, south

Proof of payment: Producers in Monte Cristi and Dajabón provinces received a payment for culled pigs.

20-08-2021 | News

ASF Dominican Republic: 30,000 pigs culled, farmers compensated