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Senator Presses USDA to Act Quickly on Spread of PED

2014-04-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - US Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) is pressing the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to quickly step up efforts to prevent further incidence of the fast-spreading Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus that has already killed millions of pigs in Minnesota and across the country, and to provide help to producers already hit by the disease.

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