Farmers in Manitoba, Canada's third-largest pork producing province, are scrambling to contain a mysterious outbreak of a rapidly spreading virus that's deadly to piglets and threatens to harm their industry. Since May 2, porcine epidemic diarrhea has hit 51 pork operations in the province, housing about 20 per cent of the province's sows as well as hundreds of thousands of young pigs. "It caught us off-guard," Andrew Dickson, general manager of ...
07-12-2017, 12:30 AM
Manitoba farmers scramble to contain pork virus
Farmers in Manitoba, Canada's third-largest pork producing province, are scrambling to contain a mysterious outbreak of a rapidly spreading virus that's deadly to piglets and threatens to harm their industry. Since May 2, porcine epidemic diarrhea has hit 51 pork operations in the province, housing about 20 per cent of the province's sows as well as hundreds of thousands of young pigs. "It caught us off-guard," Andrew Dickson, general manager of ...
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