date:Feb 21, 2014
As the U.S. hog industry struggles to contain a virus killing million of pigs across the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned on Thursday that the impact on the hog supply would be greater than expected.
Montana and Idaho became the latest in 25 U.S. states and 3 Canadian provinces to report confirmed cases of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, or PEDv. That brings the total confirmed cases in the U.S. to 3,528 as of Saturday, up from 2,962 as of Feb. 1, according to data releas