Vigilant(e) 🕵️‍♂️

🇺🇸🛡️ The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) says the latest developments regarding African Swine Fever (ASF) in Europe and Southeast Asia are a reminder of the need to remain vigilant and prepared in North America. Though it’s not a food safety issue, it can be transmitted among pigs and is fatal for the animals, thus harming local and global food supply chains. For more details, click here.

     • The first outbreak has been recently reported in Singapore, the 17th nation in the continent, as has the eighth case in Germany (we talked about it here). 

     • The skies are not all gloomy, though: the development of a vaccine in Vietnam has been promising (check that out here).