A Lab, a Boar, and a Biosafety Nightmare: How African Swine Fever Reached Spain’s Doorstep
When African swine fever ASF showed up in wild boar just outside Barcelona in late November, Spanish veterinarians and producers felt the collective stomach drop. Spain had stayed free of ASF despite watching it creep steadily westward across Europe for more than a decade. Then two infected boar carcasses were found only a few hundred meters from one of the country’s highest security animal health laboratories.
Can Oral Vaccines Do What Syringes Can’t? Inside WSU’s Bold Plan to Finally Outrun Rabies
Rabies is one of those diseases every veterinary professional knows well and still finds deeply frustrating. It is 100 percent fatal once clinical signs appear, entirely preventable, and yet it continues to kill an estimated 60,000 people every year. Nearly all of those deaths occur in Africa and Asia and most are caused by canine rabies. Now, a new Washington State University-led study is testing whether a simple shift in strategy could help close one of the biggest gaps in global rabies control.