EU AND NORTH AMERICAN RESEARCHERS TARGET PIG WASTING DISEASE
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers have teamed up with north American scientists to successfully develop commercially-viable treatments for pig wasting disease 'postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome' (PMWS), a major scourge of the pigmeat sector.A new report on ongoing research, says PCVD is, "the most economically important pig disease to emerge in the last 10 years", and "severely affects the livelihood of producers through EU member states and elsewhere."Tapping money available from the EU's framework programmes on research, EU-funded project ...
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