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The National Pork Board has developed a new fact sheet on swine
influenza virus (SIV).
“INFLUENZA: People, Pigs and Public Health” is written
by Christopher W. Olsen, SIV expert at the University of Wisconsin. It
addresses a variety of issues about the virus including safety for pork
producers and employees and its zoonotic characteristics.
PSC Elstow Research Farm Inc., a subsidiary company of Prairie Swine Centre Inc., based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, will close due to huge losses in the pork business...