José Sánchez Vizcaíno: “Chile must actively prevent African Swine Fever from entering the country”
The expert, who actively works with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Regional Organization for Plant and Animal Health (OIRSA), among other institutions, talked to us about his latest research projects. José Sánchez-Vizcaíno, veterinarian, researcher, and professor at the Universidad Complutense […]
The expert, who actively works with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Regional Organization for Plant and Animal Health (OIRSA), among other institutions, talked to us about his latest research projects.
José Sánchez-Vizcaíno, veterinarian, researcher, and professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), visited Chile. He heads up the Viral Immunology and Preventive Medicine Unit (SUAT) of the university’s VISAVET Health Surveillance Center, as well as a 10 million EUR project funded by the European Union to develop a vaccine to control African swine fever. He has been working on several lines of research related to the diagnosis of animal viruses (African swine fever, Classical swine fever, African horse sickness, Bluetongue, etc.) and the risk analysis of the potential entry and spreading of infectious diseases in Spain.