Rome, January 14, 2022 – La over African swine alarms theItaly. The contagious virus, which affects pigs and wild boars was found in Piedmont e Liguria. It is not dangerous for theman, but creates significant damage to livestock and the economy. To curb its spread, the ministers Stefano Patuanelli and Roberto Speranza signed aorder which prohibits in 114 municipalities concerned the hunting. Prohibitions also for mushroom and truffle picking, fishing, trekking, la mountain bike.
Let’s see together, with the help of the information sent by the Ministry of Health, things the plague sounds to him prohibitions imposed.
Summary
The over African swine (PSA) is one viral disease, highly contagious and often lethal, affecting pigs and wild boars. It is not transmissible to humans. The disease spreads directly by contact between infected animals or through the vector puncture (ticks). Indirect transmission occurs through contaminated equipment and clothing or with the feeding to pigs from kitchen scraps contaminated or it waste disposal food, especially if containing pork, incorrectly.
I main symptoms in animals affected are: fever, loss of appetite, weakness of the posterior train with consequent uncertain gait, difficulty in breathing and oculo-nasal discharge, constipation, spontaneous abortions, internal bleeding and evident haemorrhages on the ears and hips. The virus circulates associated with certain types of blood cells, causing the symptoms that inevitably leads to death of the animal, often very quickly.
Animals that get over the disease can stay carriers of the virus for about a year, thus playing a fundamental role for the persistence of the virus in endemic areas and for its transmission. The virus comes with a good resistance in the external environment and can remain viable for up to one hundred days surviving inside the cured meats for a few months or withstanding high temperatures. In collected blood it is detectable for up to 18 months.
Although highly contagious and often lethal to animals, swine fever it is not dangerous, from the health point of view, for theman. However, it creates large quantities damage cheap: the cases found between Piedmont and Liguria have activated precautionary measures at the borders of Switzerland, Kuwait and in the East (China, Japan and Taiwan) where temporary stop, as announced by Confagricoltura, to the import of meats and cured meats made in Italy. At stake exports, according to estimates by Cia-Agricoltori Italiani, which are based on 1.7 billion euros.
The first case was found in a wild boar carcass found in Municipality of Ovada, in the Province of Alessandria (Piedmont). This was followed by other cases both in Piedmont itself and in Liguria. Maximum alert even in neighboring areas Emilia Romagna, Lombardy e Tuscany. Previously in Italy the disease was present, since 1978, only in Sardinia.
Ministers Stefano Patuanelli and Roberto Speranza signed aorder to curb the epidemic in the affected areas (114 Municipalities of which 78 in Piedmont and 36 in Liguria). There ordinary hunting it is forbidden, as it involves large movements of animals, which could spread the disease. The stop concerns all “hunting activities of any type”, except for the selection of wild boar “permitted as a tool to reduce the excess population and strengthen the monitoring network for the presence of the virus”. In the area they are also prohibited “the collection of mushrooms and truffles, the fishing, the trekking, la mountain bike and other activities of direct or indirect interaction with infected or potentially infected wild boars “.
Hunting prohibited between Piedmont and Liguria. Stop even trekking
The provisions are effective for 6 months from that date and “also apply to regions with special status and to the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano compatibly with their respective statutes and the relative implementation regulations “.
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