When piglets began dying on farms in southern China in late October 2016, their owners thought they knew what was going on. Baby pigs on farms are especially vulnerable to illness, and one particular disease, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, causes exactly the symptoms the piglets were having—vomiting, severe diarrhea, death from dehydration, and stress. The …
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