U.S. senators urge help for producers hit by killer pig virus

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U.S. senators urge help for producers hit by killer pig virus

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-senators-urge-help-producers-hit-killer-pig-204051463--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/G4gzCOzycG.VSWZo_JowQQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-13T204051Z_1_CBREA2C1LG500_RTROPTP_2_CONGRESS-MFGLOBAL-PEREGRINE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Chairwoman Stabenow listens to testimony before Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington" align="left" title="Chairwoman Stabenow listens to testimony before Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington" border="0" /></a>By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve disaster assistance for small pork producers affected by a deadly virus that has killed more than four million pigs across the United States in the past year. Democrats Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Kay Hagan of North Carolina, the number two U.S. hog producer, also urged increased research to find a vaccine for Porcine Endemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv), for which no treatment currently exists. &quot;Pork producers that have been impacted by PEDv face economic devastation,&quot; the senators wrote in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, dated March 11 and released on Thursday. There have been 4,458 confirmed outbreaks of PEDv in 27 states, according to figures from the USDA's National Animal Health Laboratory Network released on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>

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