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Death of pig in Gifu Pref due to swine fever virus

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This is very sad news for farmers in the area, its hard to make a living, then all of your animals that you have reared have to be culled, does the Japanese government compensate farms in these sort of situations?

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This is very sad news for farmers in the area, its hard to make a living, then all of your animals that you have reared have to be culled, does the Japanese government compensate farms in these sort of situations?

I suppose insurance companies will.

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I didn't know that Japan exports pork too.

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SARS, swine flu, bird flu, all came from China

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