How to Use swine fever in a Sentence

swine fever

noun
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  • The swine fever caused farmers in Latin America and Southeast Asia to cull their herds.
    — Bob Pepalis, Washington Examiner, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The swine fever virus isn’t harmful to humans, but is almost always deadly in pigs and there is no...
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The outbreak of swine fever in China also resulted in the death of 100 million pigs, which took some of the edge off demand.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Chinese data also showed a 9.1% surge in food prices, reflecting the toll of swine fever on the country’s pork.
    — Fortune, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The price of pork has jumped as the country deals with a devastating swine fever epidemic.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2019
  • The outbreak of swine fever also threatens to upend the global pork supply chain.
    — Laura He, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Among the goods are frozen pork, which the country needs because its pig herds have been devastated by a deadly epidemic of swine fever.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Some experts have said the current spread of swine fever is the largest known animal disease outbreak in history.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • China also has to contend with outbreaks of swine fever in other countries.
    — CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Pork is China’s main source of protein, and swine fever last year pushed overall consumer inflation to the highest level in eight years.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Chinese officials are still trying to contain the outbreak of swine fever, which doesn’t make people sick but can be fatal in pigs.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2019
  • Since being first detected in China in August 2018, swine fever has spread to other countries in the Asia region.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 4 July 2019
  • The staple meat had driven rising inflation since 2019 because of swine fever.
    — Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • Another factor is an outbreak of swine fever that may result in the forced destruction of half of China’s pigs this year, or a quarter of the world’s supply.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Yet the nation, where pork remains the main source of animal protein, is suffering from a swine fever epidemic.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • After just recovering from a lethal swine fever outbreak, that’s put growth in a downturn again, with sow numbers falling for eight straight months.
    — Megan Durisin, Jen Skerritt, Michael Hirtzer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • Germany confirmed the first case of swine fever in the state of Saxony, signaling that the disease is spreading beyond its initial hotspot in Brandenburg.
    — Birgit Jennen, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • In total, Xinhua, a media outlet, estimates hog stocks in China are now at 81% of pre-swine fever levels.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 31 July 2020
  • Thailand bars pig imports from Myanmar, which reported its first swine fever outbreak last month.
    — Busaba Sivasomboon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • China is stepping up its grain imports as the country seeks to replenish its pig farms after an outbreak of deadly swine fever.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The process of moving them is highly regulated, in order to prevent the spread of swine fever or any other potential diseases.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
  • While swine fever has been raging in Asia for a more than a year, the American market has been mostly isolated from the impact until recently.
    — Lydia Mulvany and Michael Hirtzer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • That suggests the cause goes deeper than temporary supply disruptions from bad weather and a swine fever outbreak.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The next step will be nationwide authorization, the first ever for an African swine fever vaccine, and possible sales overseas.
    — Reuters, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • When the swine fever began to spread 16 months ago, the Ministry of Agriculture told the country’s local governments to cull all pigs in herds if there was even one sick animal, and to compensate the farmers.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Those transporting not just live pigs, but also pork, across borders risk introducing swine fever to new areas.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • So conservationists working to protect the tigers in Russia are also concerned about protecting the deer and boar species from habitat loss and swine fever.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • Only limited data are available from China’s trials on a live-virus vaccine against swine fever.
    — Reuters, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • In July, the country's agriculture ministry said criminal gangs were faking outbreaks of swine fever on farms and forcing farmers to sell their healthy pigs at sharply lower prices.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2019

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