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India's Indigenous African Swine Fever Vaccine
India now has its own vaccine against African Swine Fever, developed at an ICAR high-containment animal-disease laboratory in Bhopal and grown in a widely available cell line that should keep mass production cheap.
Last updated 4 August 20265 min read
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Added India's first home-grown African Swine Fever vaccine - who built it, how it works, the dosing schedule, and the crore-scale losses in Assam and Mizoram it is meant to prevent.
- African Swine Fever
- ASF vaccine
- ICAR-NIHSAD
- MA-104 cell line
- livestock biosecurity
- pig farming
- ICAR
- veterinary vaccine
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