Virus deadly to piglets spreads to North Carolina's hog farms

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Virus deadly to piglets spreads to North Carolina's hog farms

By P.J. Huffstutter and Theopolis Waters CHICAGO (Reuters) - A swine virus deadly to piglets has been discovered on two hog farms in North Carolina, an official in the No. 2 hog-producing U.S. state said on Tuesday. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) was found at a sow farm, where piglets are born, and at a finishing farm where hogs are fattened up for slaughter, said Dr. Tom Ray, director of Livestock Health Programs for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ...

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