ASF: a virus with no cure or vaccine
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Harmless to humans, but deadly to pigs and wild boars, African swine fever (ASF) is a viral disease for which there are neither vaccines nor cures. In recent years it has spread across Europe and worldwide, causing serious socio-economic consequences in the affected regions. Join us for this episode of Science on the Menu, in which our expert Lina Mur explains the state of play.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Science on the Menu. |
| 0:24.9 | My name is James Ramsey and today we're going to be talking about animal health. |
| 0:30.1 | Another animal health issue actually. |
| 0:31.4 | You may have listened to the previous podcast we did on avian influenza. |
| 0:35.5 | Today we're going to be talking about another important animal |
| 0:38.0 | disease, and that is African swine fever, or ASF. And to join us for this discussion, we have one of our |
| 0:46.7 | animal health experts here today with us. Her name is Lina Muir. A very warm welcome to you, |
| 0:52.9 | Lina. How are you? Very good, James. Very happy to be here with you. |
| 0:56.9 | Great. Well, we're happy to have you too. Let's start, Lena. Maybe just tell us a bit about yourself, |
| 1:02.4 | your background and dealing with African swine fever, and then we go from there. Perfect. I'm a Spanish |
| 1:10.7 | veterinarian, and I guess I started working with |
| 1:13.9 | African swine fever when I was a still a vet student. And one of my professors said, like, |
| 1:20.1 | ah, would you like to do some research? I'm saying, why not? And he mentioned this disease and it sounds like, |
| 1:24.5 | Africa. Cool. Let's go there. At that time, nobody cared a lot about the disease. |
| 1:30.3 | So I studied with a PhD and traveled around the world, |
| 1:33.3 | saying that it's a real problem. |
| 1:37.3 | I got an opportunity to see Africa, Russia and different settings. |
| 1:41.3 | And then when I finished the PhD, I moved to the United States, |
| 1:45.4 | because I really wanted to try the research there. It's a different area. It's totally different. |
| 1:51.2 | And afterwards, I did some research there on vaccine, risk assessment. I came back in 2017 to |
| 2:00.5 | Europe to work in the World Organization for Animal Health |
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