HANOI (Reuters) -&nbsp;Vietnam&nbsp;will&nbsp;export&nbsp;two&nbsp;million&nbsp;vaccine&nbsp;doses&nbsp;against African&nbsp;swine&nbsp;fever&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;by&nbsp;October, the government said on Wednesday, one week after it approved domestic use of the world's first commercial&nbsp;vaccines against the disease.
African&nbsp;swine&nbsp;fever&nbsp;has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market. In the worst outbreak in 2018-19, about half the domestic pig population died in China, the world's biggest producer, causing losses estimated at over $100 billion.
The&nbsp;vaccine&nbsp;to be shipped to the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;is produced for commercial use by AVAC&nbsp;Vietnam&nbsp;JSC, the government said in a statement, adding the company has already shipped 300,000&nbsp;doses&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;since its approval
The shipment "signalled huge&nbsp;export&nbsp;potential", the government said.
Vietnam&nbsp;late last month approved domestic commercial use of two African&nbsp;swine&nbsp;fever&nbsp;vaccines - NAVET-ASFVAC and AVAC ASF LIVE - co-developed by&nbsp;Vietnamese companies and researchers from the United States.
More than 650,000&nbsp;doses&nbsp;of the&nbsp;vaccines had recently been tested on hog herds in 40 provinces throughout the country, with an efficacy rate of 95%, according to the government.
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(Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by Sharon Singleton)

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