date:Dec 03, 2018
pork markets.
China has suffered more than 70 outbreaks of the disease, which kills pigs and has no cure or vaccine.
Chinese pig farmers have started to get rid of animals to cut their losses after prices dropped when Beijing banned the transport of live pigs from infected regions.
Basically every hog thats culled or killed to try to control this disease is a hog that has to be imported, said Dennis Smith, a broker for Archer Financial Services in Chicago.
Source: Reuters