新ワクチンの安全性諮問＝豚コレラ防止、食安委に－農水省

　農林水産省は２４日、家畜伝染病「豚コレラ」のまん延防止策の一環として、新型の「マーカーワクチン」を接種した豚の肉製品の安全性を内閣府食品安全委員会に諮問した。通常のワクチンは感染した豚と接種した豚の区別が付かず、新たな発生を見逃す恐れがあるが、新ワクチンは検査により識別が可能で、こうしたリスクを低減できる。
　農水省は安全性や有効性が確認されれば、感染防止対策の一つとして活用する考え。食安委の専門調査会が安全性を検証し、早ければ年内に結論を出す。その後、同省が数カ月間の実証実験を行い、有効だと認められれば、投与できるようになる。（2019/09/24-18:43）

The Japanese farm ministry plans to use a marker vaccine for swine fever to make it easier to identify unvaccinated pigs, in the face of the ongoing epidemic of the disease in the country, officials said Tuesday.
   The ministry asked the Cabinet Office's Food Safety Commission on Tuesday to examine the safety of meat from pigs given the marker vaccine.
   The commission is expected to draw a conclusion within this year at the earliest. The ministry will then conduct tests on the vaccine for several months. The vaccine will be put in use once it is confirmed to be effective in the tests.
   The new vaccine, developed by a U.S.-based drug company using genetic engineering, costs several times as much as existing vaccines.
   Its safety and effectiveness have been certified in several other countries, where the vaccine, however, has never been used actually, partly because the countries have seen no swine fever outbreak in recent years, according to ministry officials.