tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
“It all happened in 48 hours. Contagion first, then death. I had 34,000 heads, mostly turkeys, but also chickens. All dead or shot down. There is nothing to do, when it comes in it's a disaster '. Unfortunately, she has entered. The avian flu has infected his Albettone breeding and he, Paolo Zattarin, tells it with lucid resignation. 'I hoped he would spare us, after hitting hard in the Veronese area, but it wasn't like that.' Zattarin's was a traumatic awakening, but now not even all of his fellow poultry farmers from the Lower Vicenza area are sleeping peacefully as they have to deal with the epizootic, the epidemic in animals. 'At least three avian outbreaks have been identified in the Berica area', confirms Ezio Berti, president of the Venetian poultry association, 'one in Albettone, the largest, the others in Villaga and Noventa'. Thirty-four thousand head in the first, 'fifteen thousand turkeys in the second', a number 'to be quantified of laying hens in the third'. A health emergency, with Ulss 8 activated and already in the field with its specialized teams to deal with it with checks and tampons, but also an economic one, with 'damages for now measurable in a few hundred thousand euros in the Vicenza area, but already millionaires in Veneto, in particular in the Verona area, where there are 140 outbreaks in all ».
https://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/...-tre-focolai-morti-50-mila-tacchini-1.9073865
https://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/...-tre-focolai-morti-50-mila-tacchini-1.9073865
