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Spanish emergency workers, including soldiers, are busy collecting and testing dozens of dead boar for the swine fever virus in a park near Barcelona. They’re trying to contain the disease so that millions of domesticated pigs throughout the region don’t catch it. An infection on farms could decimate Spain’s multi-billion dollar pork industry. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.