Officials Step Up Swine Fever Checks to Protect Hog Industry, Market Rally

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China is buying U.S. pork again after a virus decimated herds there, and the U.S. is stepping up measures to protect the industry

A deadly virus that has decimated Chinese hog herds has prompted buyers in the world’s largest pork market to purchase more of the meat from U.S. producers for the first time in a year.

Now U.S. officials are enlisting sniffer dogs and other heightened monitoring efforts to help protect that hog-market rally. They are inspecting shipments of live hogs, frozen meat and other goods into the U.S. for evidence of African swine fever, a contagious disease that is nearly 100% fatal in both domestic and wild pigs. It doesn’t affect...

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