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Traffic virus, called process for Ilaria Capua
Forty accused of conspiracy in the fight all'aviaria. There is also the deputy of Padua Civic Choice
March 26, 2015
ROME. Forty-one people, including employees of the Ministry of Health, leaders of veterinary epidemiology experimental Padova and Teramo and managers of pharmaceutical companies, are likely to trial at the conclusion of an investigation of the Rome prosecutors, born from a disclosure of Nas April 9 2005, an alleged illegal trafficking of avian influenza virus. The hypothesis formulated by the prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo is that from 1999 to 2003 has been active a criminal who would use highly pathogenic viruses like H7N3 and H9, of illicit origin, "in order to produce clandestinely, without the prescribed ministerial authorization, medicinal products for veterinary use, then proceeding, always unlawful forms, their marketing and their administration to animals of poultry factory farms "of northern Italy," thus causing the infection of seven operators as ascertained by ' Institute of Health and, as a preventive measure, the killing of millions of heads of chickens and turkeys. " All this would have caused damage to the domestic poultry population of 40 million euro.
The charges by the prosecutor should be, depending on the positions, receiving stolen from corruption, the drug delivery so dangerous to public health to attempted epidemic, from extortion to abuse of office. Some defendants are also accused of having committed acts contrary to their official duties "by entering into contracts for the sale of the patent on the DIVA test (which identifies whether an animal is positive to the virus) made with equipment and staff of the Institute Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Legnaro (PD) in the interests of companies Merial Italy Spa and Fort Doge, from which they received large sums of money in the form of royalties, gratuities and funding for conventions, conferences and research projects and which gave way in most circumstances strains of avian influenza in the absence of the required authorizations ministerial. " Doing so would have been damaged competing firms. According to the prosecution, then, part of the suspects would have turned increasingly to favor "the commercial interests of Merial Italy, from the sale of large quantities of vaccine for the blue-tongue is not necessary to national needs."
In the proceedings, landed today before the preliminary hearing judge who will rule next month on a number of objections raised by the defense, convinced of the absolute absence of the alleged offenses, involving, among others, Romano Marabelli, former director general of the Department of Food and Health the veterinary department of Health (currently suspended, will ask the summary proceedings), and then Vincenzo Caporale, at the time director of the Livestock Research Institute of Abruzzo and Molise, the head of the laboratory of virology of Padua, Ilaria Capua, elected two years ago in the House for Civic Choice and Paul Candoli, manager of Merial Italy Spa, which was received at his home in Cesena, by sea, from Saudi Arabia, where he had been illegally smuggled from the US, the virus of H9 ' avian concealed in ice cubes.
Forty accused of conspiracy in the fight all'aviaria. There is also the deputy of Padua Civic Choice
March 26, 2015
ROME. Forty-one people, including employees of the Ministry of Health, leaders of veterinary epidemiology experimental Padova and Teramo and managers of pharmaceutical companies, are likely to trial at the conclusion of an investigation of the Rome prosecutors, born from a disclosure of Nas April 9 2005, an alleged illegal trafficking of avian influenza virus. The hypothesis formulated by the prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo is that from 1999 to 2003 has been active a criminal who would use highly pathogenic viruses like H7N3 and H9, of illicit origin, "in order to produce clandestinely, without the prescribed ministerial authorization, medicinal products for veterinary use, then proceeding, always unlawful forms, their marketing and their administration to animals of poultry factory farms "of northern Italy," thus causing the infection of seven operators as ascertained by ' Institute of Health and, as a preventive measure, the killing of millions of heads of chickens and turkeys. " All this would have caused damage to the domestic poultry population of 40 million euro.
The charges by the prosecutor should be, depending on the positions, receiving stolen from corruption, the drug delivery so dangerous to public health to attempted epidemic, from extortion to abuse of office. Some defendants are also accused of having committed acts contrary to their official duties "by entering into contracts for the sale of the patent on the DIVA test (which identifies whether an animal is positive to the virus) made with equipment and staff of the Institute Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Legnaro (PD) in the interests of companies Merial Italy Spa and Fort Doge, from which they received large sums of money in the form of royalties, gratuities and funding for conventions, conferences and research projects and which gave way in most circumstances strains of avian influenza in the absence of the required authorizations ministerial. " Doing so would have been damaged competing firms. According to the prosecution, then, part of the suspects would have turned increasingly to favor "the commercial interests of Merial Italy, from the sale of large quantities of vaccine for the blue-tongue is not necessary to national needs."
In the proceedings, landed today before the preliminary hearing judge who will rule next month on a number of objections raised by the defense, convinced of the absolute absence of the alleged offenses, involving, among others, Romano Marabelli, former director general of the Department of Food and Health the veterinary department of Health (currently suspended, will ask the summary proceedings), and then Vincenzo Caporale, at the time director of the Livestock Research Institute of Abruzzo and Molise, the head of the laboratory of virology of Padua, Ilaria Capua, elected two years ago in the House for Civic Choice and Paul Candoli, manager of Merial Italy Spa, which was received at his home in Cesena, by sea, from Saudi Arabia, where he had been illegally smuggled from the US, the virus of H9 ' avian concealed in ice cubes.
3/26/2015 Ilaria Capua had defense: "I Will Fight, false accusations"
A year ago, when it was revealed the news of the ongoing investigation, the note virologist Ilaria Capua, now a Member of Choice civic, he commented: "I am absolutely happy and combative. The IZSVe-zooprofilattico Institute provides in a completely transparent and legal matrices of the virus to the drug companies. I virus researchers Use I provided plenty for study: I work with the virus (bird flu in the first place, as is known) are among the most studied in the world as possible causes of epidemics ".
A year ago, when it was revealed the news of the ongoing investigation, the note virologist Ilaria Capua, now a Member of Choice civic, he commented: "I am absolutely happy and combative. The IZSVe-zooprofilattico Institute provides in a completely transparent and legal matrices of the virus to the drug companies. I virus researchers Use I provided plenty for study: I work with the virus (bird flu in the first place, as is known) are among the most studied in the world as possible causes of epidemics ".
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