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By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The piglet-killing Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) has spread to a second Canadian farm, government officials said on Monday. A laboratory test confirmed the virus in a barn near Chatham-Kent, Ontario, and another possible case is under investigation in the same area, said Greg Douglas, the Canadian province's chief veterinary officer. "We still are under the impression that there are strategies to help mitigate, slow the spread of this virus in Ontario," he said. Last week, the Ontario government said the virus, which has killed at least 1 million pigs in the United States, was found on a hog farm in southern Ontario's Middlesex County, marking the first confirmed case of the virus on a Canadian farm.