African Swine Fever: VACDIVA – 1st International Workshop for Hunters

The meeting will update on the situation around African Swine Fever, presenting the objectives and results already obtained through the VACDIVA project and will include different presentations and discussions on three main topics: effective and safe vaccines against African swine fever in wild boar and domestic pigs; DIVA tests to accompany vaccine candidates; African swine fever control and eradication strategies for different epidemiological scenarios in the world, and pilot vaccine test in the field.

The meeting will be virtual and you can register at: https://vacdiva.eu/activities/vacdiva-1st-international-workshop-hunters  .

African swine fever has recently been detected in wild boar in Piedmont in northern Italy – mainland Italy has previously been free of the disease.

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