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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Paolo Santalucia

Prosciutto warning as swine fever sweeps Italy with 120,000 pigs killed

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One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows tested positive for African swine fever in late August. Within a week, all 6,200 sows, piglets and fattening pigs on his farm south of Milan were slaughtered under strict protocols to halt the disease threatening Italy’s 20 billion euro prosciutto, cured sausage and pork industry.

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