AVAC ASF vaccine mula Vietnam, napatunayang ligtas at epektibo sa mga baboy; DA, target simulan ang bakunahan sa Setyembre

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00:00The Agriculture Department targets the use of vaccines from Vietnam against African Swine Fever.

00:08It targets thousands of pigs in different parts of the country.

00:11Clayzel Pardilla is back.

00:16The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Certificate of Product Registration

00:21for the use of vaccines against African Swine Fever.

00:25This is the Avac-ASF vaccine from Vietnam

00:29that the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Animal Industry will use

00:33for the controlled vaccination of pigs.

00:36Based on the first and second phase of the trial,

00:39it was proven to be safe and effective.

00:43The clinical trials has been undergone for almost a year or two years from now.

00:48So basically, this has come to the rigorous process of the Food and Drug Administration

00:55and it has been proven 100% safe and efficacious.

00:58The DA's target is to start the controlled vaccination in September.

01:026,000 pigs will be vaccinated.

01:05Batangas and Oriental Mindoro will be the first,

01:08or those in the Red and Pink Zones, or areas that have ASF cases.

01:13But it will be done slowly and voluntarily for the pigs to be vaccinated.

01:19The DA has already allocated P350 million for the program.

01:24They say ASF is spreading more in the rainy season,

01:28which is why it's time to vaccinate.

01:31If it rains, the dead pigs will go up, they will go crazy.

01:37The ASF is heavy.

01:38It's decades before the virus dies.

01:43If there's a storm, if it rains, it will spread.

01:47It will spread to the roads, to travelers.

01:51The DA believes that the vaccine against ASF

01:55will help in boosting the supply of pigs and lowering the price.

02:00If the vaccine is really effective,

02:03it will definitely have a big effect on our production.

02:07Because people will now invest again,

02:10and we will have more swine.

02:14So there's a good chance that the price of pork will go down.

02:17Aside from vaccinating the ASF,

02:20the DA is also monitoring the bird flu.

02:23Three farms in Tarlac are suspected to have cases of Avian Influenza.

02:27A confirmatory test was done on the pigs.

02:30There's no reason to be alarmed,

02:33and the DA can't see that it will affect the price of chicken and eggs.