Padua, 20 January 2022 – Avian, the Coldiretti does the math. After 306 outbreaks and 14 million culled animals since October, the animal husbandry manager of the association, Giorgio Apostoli, lists: “I am at least 2,500 farms involved, essentially half of the Italian ones. Half a billion of damage, because the consequences of the protection and surveillance measures, which in certain areas have caused the total block of the settlements of chicks”.
But it foresees refueling problems in supermarkets? “The risk is real – Coldiretti’s expert reasons -. And it concerns first of all turkeys, which are produced right in the areas at the center of the outbreaks “. Let’s talk about Veneto and Lombardy, Apostoli recalls, “then there was something in Friuli Venezia Giulia e a case in Lazio”.
There may also be refueling problems for eggs and chicken. “But fortunately – warns Coldiretti’s animal husbandry manager – already for a few days we don’t see anymore almost. In short, it seems that we have reached the end of the tunnel. Even if the winter is still long … “.
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The report of the I.Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of the Venezie, updated January 11, clarifies that most viruses have been identified as belonging to the subtype H5N1. The provinces concerned are above all Verona and Mantua – those with the highest concentration of poultry farms – with sporadic cases in Bresciano It is in the Rodigino.
To stop the spread of the epidemic, farmers were forced to cull all the animals, a number between 13 and 14 million birds. At the date of January 10, all the outbreaks recorded They were deemed extinct. The avian has also been found by the IzsV in some wild species: there are only 17 cases, in different areas of Italy, the last of which was registered on 31 December last. Among these cases, even a eagle owl, which may have contracted the virus by feeding on parts of already sick animal carcasses. “The disease starts from wild animals – Apostoli recalls -. In particular, they start from Northern Europe and infect domestic animals. Italy has had the greatest damage compared to other countries”.