Zoetis PEDv from BBC

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France is expected to _________ pig-related imports from a number of countries as _______ grow over the spread of a deadly swine virus. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus (PEDv) has killed some seven million piglets in the US in the past year. The disease has also been found in Canada, ________ and Japan. While the virus isn't harmful to humans or ____, France is concerned over the potential economic impact and is set to _____ imports of live pigs and _________ PEDv is spread in faecal matter and _______ the guts of pigs, preventing them from absorbing liquids and nutrients.

Older animals can survive but fatality rates among piglets______ between 80% and 100%.

So virulent is the agent that one expert ___ that a ________of infected manure would be enough to sicken the entire US herd.

The disease is believed to have its ________in China, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

"According to the information from genetic analyses, there is some____ with a strain from Asia,"

"But the evidence of the crossing from Asia to the US is not yet________. For the moment it is not possible to make a final conclusion on the formal link, it is a suspicion."

In North America, the disease has moved rapidly, with around 4,000 outbreaks in 30 US states, in four Canadian provinces and in parts of Mexico.