Two people in Michigan have been diagnosed with swine flu after attending county fairs, health officials confirmed today.
The patients – whose infections are not linked to one another – caught different strains at separate fairs last month, where they were exposed to infected pigs.
Both sufferers – whose identities have not been revealed – experienced mild illness, and there is no sign they spread it to others.
But the infections come amid an unprecedented influenza outbreak in animals that
Vietnam will export two million vaccine doses against African swine fever to the Philippines by October, the government said on Wednesday, one week after it approved domestic use of the world’s first commercial vaccines against the disease.
African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market. In the worst outbreak in 2018-19, about half the domestic pig population died in China, the world’s biggest producer, causing losses estimated at over $100 billion.
The vaccine to be
