How to Use swine fever in a Sentence

swine fever

noun
  • 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
  • China also has to contend with outbreaks of swine fever in other countries.
    — CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The lab connection to the current African swine fever virus outbreak in Spain cannot be denied.
    — Andrew Noymer, Oc Register, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Thailand bars pig imports from Myanmar, which reported its first swine fever outbreak last month.
    — Busaba Sivasomboon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Those transporting not just live pigs, but also pork, across borders risk introducing swine fever to new areas.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 swine fever caused farmers in Latin America and Southeast Asia to cull their herds.
    — Bob Pepalis, Washington Examiner, 1 Dec. 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
  • That suggests the cause goes deeper than temporary supply disruptions from bad weather and a swine fever outbreak.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
  • African swine fever virus doesn’t make people ill, so, apart from Spanish hog farmers, why should anyone care about this outbreak in Spain?
    — Andrew Noymer, Oc Register, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Only limited data are available from China’s trials on a live-virus vaccine against swine fever.
    — Reuters, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • Last year, Vietnam successfully produced the first vaccine against African swine fever.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • The staple meat had driven rising inflation since 2019 because of swine fever.
    — Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 9 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Spain is currently experiencing an outbreak of African swine fever in wild boars, its first since 1994.
    — Andrew Noymer, Oc Register, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Advertisement Today, mainly due to concerns about diseases such as African swine fever, animal feed is also on its way out.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Headline consumer price inflation is rapid thanks to the swine fever that is decimating China’s pig population.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • Grocery bills in China were already climbing in recent months as an epidemic of swine fever ravaged the nation’s hog population.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The swine fever epidemic will test that commitment to its increasingly affluent people, who more often expect meat at the dinner table.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
  • 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

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