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Wednesday, 30 November 2016
On 23 November 2016, the IZS delle Venezie seat of the National Reference Laboratory for Avian flu, confirmed positive for LPAI H5 flu virus on samples taken, as part of routine surveillance, in a kind farm breeding in the Province of Milan, Lombardy Region.
It shall inform the Ministry of Health. Animals on the farm are about 2500 ducks. At the present time, based on the preliminary epidemiological investigation, you can not define the likely cause of the infection; phylogenetic analysis of the virus is in progress.
Under current legislation (Legislative Decree no. 9/2010) veterinary services have adopted the expected health measures, particularly the seizure, the establishment of a 1 km radius restriction zone and the slaughter and destruction of these birds.