Flu outbreak alarms Oklahoma hog farmers

 
BY SONYA COLBERG | Published: May 8, 2009   

When one of Bartlesville hog farmer Lonnie Hoelscher’s part-time employees returned three weeks ago from a missionary trip to Mexico, Hoelscher gave him some bad news: He wouldn’t be allowed to step foot on the sow and baby pig farm.

Hoelscher said he hasn’t heard from federal health or agriculture officials that swine flu is expected to be a problem in the swine herd.

"But we can’t go on as usual...
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