00:00Antibodies in pigs in Batangas have been found to be higher than those vaccinated against African Swine Fever.
00:07That's why some groups have called on the Department of Agriculture to focus on the emergence of an emergency use authorization of the ASF vaccine
00:15to expand and speed up the vaccination process.
00:19Clayzel Pardilla is in the center of the news.
00:2320 days after the vaccination of the African Swine Fever vaccine, the pigs in Lobo Batangas
00:30have been vaccinated. The Department of Agriculture has registered 70% of the antibody against the ASF
00:37from the blood collected from the vaccinated pigs.
00:40The result is good. At least for the first month of vaccination,
00:47many pigs developed antibodies.
00:52Scientifically, it means that the vaccine is effective.
00:58Hopefully, this will continue to be the basis of the FDA to continue to have commercial approval.
01:09From 458 barangays affected by ASF in August,
01:14534 cases of ASF were reported in the month of October.
01:18So with the help of the DA to some groups of pigs breeders,
01:23Agriculture Secretary Francisco T. Laurel Jr. was asked to convince President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
01:31to approve the emergency use authorization of the ASF vaccine from Vietnam
01:36instead of a monitored release given by the FDA to the supplier of the vaccine.
01:41The emergency use authorization is a mechanism to facilitate the availability
01:46and use of medical countermeasures including vaccines.
01:51This was also done when COVID-19 broke out
01:54to stop the use of unapproved vaccines to speed up the spread of the virus.
02:01The DA will study this.
02:03But it was decided that only the President can declare a national emergency.
02:09For the agricultural industry, the vaccination should not be done easily.
02:15The ASF vaccine must be effective and safe.
02:20If we keep on pushing it, it will not be explained to the farmers what the protocol is.
02:32That is not good.
02:34That is not good.
02:35That's why last time, we did not gather enough data because the proper channel should not pass
02:46so we can get the data that we are sure.
02:51It's better to test the pigs first, type 2 or type 1.
03:01It might mutate.
03:03So the vaccine must be monitored.
03:07490,000 doses of vaccine was the target and will be used this October.
03:14Kalei Zalpardilla for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
