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The disease is harmless to humans but can be deadly for pigs and wild boars.<br \/>Genome sequencing by a Madrid lab showed the strain was \u201cvery similar\u201d to one first detected in Georgia in 2007 and now widely used in research and vaccine development, the ministry said. 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