Quartz – by Heather TimmonsAmerica’s pork industry has been gripped by an outbreak of porcine diarrhea since mid-May, the first appearance of the condition in North America. US farmers havereported 768 cases of the disease, known as porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), through the first week of October, which implies that many more thousands of animals could be affected.
Although the disease is not transferable to humans, it has been devastating for the US pork industry. It causes severe “watery diarrhea and vomiting in nursing pigs,” according to information from the US’s National Pork Board. Almost all the piglets who get the disease die because of it, and farmers are reportedly filling “wheelbarrows of dead piglets.”
Now researchers at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech say they’ve traced the virus back to eastern China’s Anhui province. Anhui is one of China’s major pig-farming areas, home to companies like the fast-growing Anhui Antai Agricultural Industry Group, which slaughtered 500,000 pigs last year.
Pinpointing the origin of the virus isn’t going to provide much reassurance to US farmers. Years after it spread in China, it still hasn’t been controlled.
Reports of PEDV outbreaks in China and Europe are not new, and have been mostly controlled with vaccination over the years. But starting in 2010, China suffered a severe outbreak of PEDV that killed more than 1 million piglets in less than two years. Scientists said the Chinese death toll was thanks to new vaccine-resistant strains of the disease.
Anhui is a neighboring province to Shanghai, where thousands of dead pigs were discovered floating in the Huangpu River earlier this year, and had its own floating dead pig incidents. The Huangpu river pigs deaths have been attributed to “Porcine circovirus,” although some dead pigs found in the area also tested positive for PEDV, China’s state-run Global Times reported in March. Of the 36 samples tested by the Animal Disease Control Center in Zhejiang Province, 16 contained porcine circovirus and seven tested positive for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, the paper reported.
In April, Shanghai Jiaotong University ‘s Agriculture Sciences School published a research paper saying piglet diarrhea was still causing serious harm to China’s pig-breeding industry, and identifying it as the cause of pig deaths in Shanghai this spring.
How the disease traveled from Anhui to North America remains a mystery. The US and Canada both ban on pork imports from China, as Nature magazine explained in July:
Although researchers know that the virus can be transported in faeces, they do not know how long it can survive outside pigs’ intestines, so it is unclear if a dirty boot, a contaminated package or an illegal import carried PEDV into the country.
Ivy Chen contributed reporting.
Another example of killing off the food chain. Of course this illness will go bonkers and spread across the nation, killing off almost all pigs except, of course, for those swine in Washington, D.C.
My first gut reaction is….chemtrails. And yes, China does the same thing.
One more thing, actually two. EVERYTHING we get from China is poison. And recently it was announced that China would be “processing” the chicken that Americans consume. Can’t wait for that, can you??
China plays a major part in the American de-population plans.
I know how they pretend that China and Russia are our enemies but, behind the scenes, they are all the best of friends fullfilling the most evil plans ever implemented against man-kind.
When toxic merchandise was imported from China killing numerous pets
and continues today, poisoning our children with their toxic toys and baby
care products, fungicide infested sofas and sheet rock, disease ravaged
chickens and produce and no telling the unreported products, I would
have thought Chinese products would have been banned from the US.
This is what I would have done and this is what I expected. To be a
citizen and patriot of the US and the state is like a possession.
What we have here is a failure to be a patriotic American. Crime: treason.
Any debt THEY owe is not our problem; it is theirs.
FDA Update: Nearly 600 Dogs Dead, Thousands Sickened in Connection to Chinese Jerky Treats
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/10/fda-update-nearly-600-dogs-dead-in-connection-to-chinese-jerky-treats/
If I can see on the label, or find out somehow, that a product I’m about to buy is made in China, I won’t buy it.
Example: Tuna from China … that ain’t tuna folks!
Also … bookmark http://www.foodsafetynews.com and check it daily before you go shopping.
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Remember, Cathleen, that just because it says “made in the USA ” only means that it was assembled in the USA. The parts made to assemble things were probobly made in China or other third world sweat shop country – I guess we here in amerika actually do have our share of sweat shop/slave labor employment camps don`t we and most people here do not even know it. 🙁 .
True Digger …. I stand corrected. 😉 I think, in my mind, I was talking mostly about food products.
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HaHa, pretty much the same with the food industry too Cathleen. There is a whole lot of mis information on food lables too…. I have seen fish that on the lable says packaged in the US of A but was a product of Russia – cod fish to be exact is one of the fish products 🙂 . Yea Cathleen I like fish and sea food product but I quit buying/useing sea food a few years ago. I will slip up and I will buy some sea food two or three times a year but I figure that it doesn`t realy matter when ya get older ya know 🙂 . It isn`t probobly good to eat much sea food but I like sea food and I don`t think it will shorten my life that much. If I was in my 40`s or early 50`s I probobly would`nt advise it but I like it. Heck, the DNR says that in many lakes and streams/rivers that it is bad to even eat more than one or two good meals of our good fish we can catch right here in amerika they say Cathleen……….Anyway, Cathleen LOL, wasn`t China also responsible for that “bird flu – I think that they called it that “Avarian bird flu” a few years back.
“The disease that killed a million piglets in China has spread to the US, and no one knows why”.
I know exactly why.
A MOSSAD agent brought it here on a jet. How else could it jump across the ocean without killing a million more piglets between here and there?
“……..and no one knows why.”
BULLSH#T!
SOMEONE knows why.
AND how.