Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/10/24
By: Wu Hsin-yun and Matthew Mazzetta
Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) Taiwan and Vietnam have signed a cooperation agreement on measures to
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The measures will include joint work on virus detection technology, immunology research and diagnostic methods, the council said.
Since its outbreak in China last year, the virus has spread to 10 countries in the region, including Vietnam in February, where it has been discovered in all of the country's 63 provinces and municipalities, resulting in the deaths of some 5.6 million pigs, either from the virus itself or from preventative culls.
Taiwan, meanwhile, remains the only East Asian country other than Japan not currently in the ASF epidemic zone, and has had aggressive prevention measures in place against the virus since last August, the COA said. [FULL STORY]
