Animals Farmed: pig virus, wildlife trade in China, and the 'poultry capital' of Wales

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the webPigs and poultry are likely to be safe from Covid-19, according to German scientists, whose study showed that while fruit bats and ferrets were susceptible to infection, pigs and chickens were not. Coronaviruses have devastated farm animals in the past. Swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV) killed nearly 25,000 piglets in China in 2016–17.
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