How tempting, then, to boost legislators' chances of re-election with a healthy helping of porcine products.

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Laboratory tests have identified that some of the pigs had porcine circovirus, a common disease that affects pigs but does not affect humans.

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At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.

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GlaxoSmithKline today participated in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee meeting convened to discuss recent findings of porcine circovirus (PCV) in rotavirus vaccines.

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Authorities said one test detected a pig-borne disease in the river called porcine circovirus, but that doesn't normally affect humans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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" His porcine producer accuses him of succumbing to "doubts, second thoughts and whims, " but Guido wins back his wife's affections at the last with the words "Life's a celebration, let's live it together.

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After a number of measures to preserve his pulmonary valve, doctors replaced it last week with a porcine valve that should last 10 to 15 years, according to the website of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

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Although the committee did not issue any formal recommendations, members widely acknowledged that the benefits of vaccinating infants worldwide against rotavirus disease clearly outweigh the theoretical risks associated with the presence of porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV-1) in the vaccines.

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