incidents are also big political issues that's always a given but eve also talked to the european commission of agriculture what sort of things have you found out. that's right that's commissioner phil hogan out of ireland his basic message was one of support he said that we're going to support germany as it figures out what to do he would really get into specifics of course he was at a meeting yesterday with the german the federal minister of agriculture and the state ministers not hold sure where they discussed swine fever among other things he would get his civics again one of the questions here is what happens when the first wild boar is discovered to have swine fever what happens at that point to shut down exports a lot of people's livelihoods are tied to the port in germany this is a big issue here and there's a lot of fear around the issue and germany's one of the big produces huge contracts with china tell me about the price tag on the possible damage of this epidemic. it's looking at anywhere from two to three billion euros that's the export economy the e.u. is the largest export or of pork in the