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Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr . has ordered the Bureau of Animal Industry to refine its vaccination protocol to expedite the rollout of the Vietnam-developed African Swine Fever vaccine.“We're hopeful that impending changes to the vaccination protocol will finally fasttrack the vaccine rollout and finally address our problem with this stubborn virus,” Tiu Laurel said in a statement on Friday.
The DA initially bought 10,000 doses of AVAC live vaccines through emergency procurement in August as part of a broader plan to distribute at least 600,000 vaccine doses.The vaccine rollout aims to rid the hog industry of the dreaded animal disease that has decimated local hog population since its first rpeonoutbreak in 2019.
African Swine Fever Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr Department Of Agriculture
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