Pork supplies have dwindled since an outbreak of blue ear disease, a virus that can be deadly in pigs.

自从爆发可以令猪致命的蓝耳病以来，猪肉供应量下降了。

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Industry analysts blame the price rises partly on a shortage of pigs in the wake of outbreaks of "blue-ear disease" around China.

行业分析家认为猪肉飞涨的部分原因是蓝耳病在中国暴发造成生猪供应短缺。

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But it suffered nothing like the blue-ear disease that took such a toll on the country's pigs in 2007-08.

ECONOMIST: Price rises in China