date:May 29, 2013
vices, who said none of his clients have been affected. I spoke to a farmer in the Midwest who had it show up in a 2,000-head barn of pigs, and had a 40 percent death loss.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service told Reuters the agency is working with state agencies and pork industry officials to discover where the virus originated.
THE VIRUS SPREADS
Confirmed cases have been reported in five hog-raising states including Iowa, the largest