Jack Shere

A vaccine for African Swine Fever? Not yet, but there is work going on in southeast Asia that USDA officials call "the most promising vaccine to date". Dr. Jeff Silverstein with ARS said a company in Vietnam working with US researchers, has come up with a vaccine which has performed well in lab tests so far and the company has recently gotten approval for field tests in Vietnam ... Read

As we told you last week, African Swine Fever was recently discovered in the Dominican Republic. "It's a disease that pigs and pigs only. it doesn't effect man in any way and another other animal species except the swine populations in the world ...

Ask USDA chief veterinarian Jack Shere, and he’ll tell you the recent case of atypical form of BSE foud in a Florida cow shows things are working.   “We have one of the best surveillance systems in the world for this disease.  And we go well...

You may not know this about the virus known as "Foot and Mouth Disease". There are 24 different strains that can possibly infect cattle and sheep, goats and swine," said USDA Chief Veterinarian Jack Shere.   In fact, the live FMD virus was only allowed in the U-S at the Agriculture Department's Plum Island Animal Disease Center, where it was studied and worked with to develop possib