ASF in Hispaniola: The Situation is Really, Really Difficult, Delgado Says

February 9, 2023 — 

Since African swine fever (ASF) struck the island of Hispaniola in 2021, Amy Delgado, DVM, has been deployed five times to the Dominican Republic (DR) and twice to Haiti to support the USDA's response to this ASF outbreak.

Delgado is a veterinary epidemiologist and serves as the director of the Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health.

Progress has been slow in Haiti and the DR, and challenges continue, but APHIS is seeing some positive steps moving forward and will continue to work with the DR to address many of the risks there, Delgado shared during a Swine Health and Foreign Animal Disease Bullet Session at the Iowa Pork Congress.

Read more in Farm Journal's Pork.

[Source: Farm Journal's Pork 3 February 2023, by Jennifer Shike]