A new strain of African swine fever recently identified on Chinese pig farms was likely caused by “illicit vaccines,” industry experts said this week.In the absence of an approved vaccine for African swine fever, “many Chinese farmers struggling to protect their pigs have resorted to unapproved products,” Reuters revealed on Tuesday, citing industry insiders and experts who “fear illicit vaccines have created accidental infections, which are now spreading.” Two new strains of African swine fever have infected over 1,000 sows across several farms owned by China’s fourth-largest pork producer, New Hope Liuhe, in recent weeks. Pigs being fattened for New Hope by contract farmers have also been infected by the new virus strains, New Hope chief science officer Yan Zhichun told Reuters on Tuesday. “I don’t know where they come from, but we find some mild field infections caused by some sort of gene-deleted viruses,” Yan said. A Beijing-based veterinarian named Wayne Johnson said he diagnosed a chronic, and less lethal, form of African swine fever in pigs at Chinese farms in 2020. The virus strain diagnosed by Johnson “lacked certain genetic components, known as the MGF360 genes,” according to Reuters. The two new African swine fever variants recently detected at New… Read full this story
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