Looking ahead, the epidemic could decimate around 200 million pigs in China, according to a grim report by Rabobank. It forecasts that China's pork output will fall by 30% this year, creating ...
Authorities feared a potential famine as a result. According to the Chinese, these skyscrapers serve to disconnect pigs from the outside, thereby protecting them from diseases and viruses.
A team of Chinese researchers looked at influenza viruses found in pigs from 2011 to 2018 and found a “G4” strain of H1N1 that has “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus ...