Cas9, scientists reconstitute live African swine fever virus from synthetic genomes, accelerating vaccine development for ...

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Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

The innovation also has the potential to detect other diseases in livestock, in addition to detecting up to 200 types of cancers ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday reported that cases of African swine fever (ASF) in the Philippines decreased from 66 in late February to 39 as of March 14. The 39 cases are spread ...

African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting domestic and wild pigs ... the results suggest that ASF-related culling influenced population structure by removing highly ...

Delhi Swine ... virus. The first outbreak, which shook the world, dates back to 2009, when the swine flu pandemic struck the human world. Some of the warning signs include seasonal flu, including ...

H1N1 (swine flu) is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which tends to have severe symptoms. During the 2009-10 flu season, a new H1N1 virus strain has been triggering infections. Patients complain ...

Emergence of African swine fever (ASF) in the Philippines in 2019 caused substantial ... For example, culling pigs, particularly healthy animals to prevent further disease spread, can cause moral ...

Disease is rampant, and children as young as ... Paul Tilsley is a veteran correspondent who has reported on African affairs for more than three decades from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Lassa fever does not spread easily between people and the overall risk to the public is regarded as “very low”. The is an illness which is caused by the Lassa Virus. The virus, which is rat ...

Britain was today rocked by fresh Lassa fever fears after ... with the Ebola-like disease at the end of February. But it was only after they returned to the West African nation that they ...