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  • Italy: avian flu outbreak in Cuneo province

    Seventy thousand broilers killed with nitrogen introduced into various sheds, then transported by trucks equipped with GPS - to check their route - to the Improma of Ceresole for 'disposal': that is, incinerated. With dozens of operators harnessed as for Covid to avoid risks. And all the rooms and vehicles sanitized. A dangerous outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, that is, infectious for other farmed or wild animals, has been eliminated in Pianfei. The Region informed that it had 'intervened on the avian outbreak found in a farm'. The regional councilor for health Luigi Icardi: 'Situation under control: the timely intervention made it possible to avert the danger'.

    The alarm came from the breeding that will be compensated with European funds. 'We have informed the veterinary services of the ASL after an increase in the mortality of the animals: a few tens of specimens out of tens of thousands of chickens - explain the company -. We recorded the anomalous mortality on Sunday evening (February 20, ed) and the ASL was activated in a few hours for analysis. Then the samples were sent to Cuneo, Turin, Padua: the network of zooprophylactic institutes ascertained that it was avian flu ยป.


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