Pig Wasting Syndrome Costs Farmers Millions
UK - Stark new figures show that a common pig virus - post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) - present on 99 per cent of pig farms has major economic implications for individual farmers and the pig industry as a whole, costing British farmers as much as 384 per pig (if the pig dies from the syndrome) and during epidemic periods, such as 2008, costing the pig industry 388 million per year.
27 March 2013
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