Bird flu
An urgent communication was issued by the Veterinary Service of the Lombardy Region for the adoption of urgent measures to limit the spread of thebird flu. Among the measures adopted, mostly concerning farms and therefore the protection of the sector, there is also the prohibition of using live calls (anseriformes and charadriformes) in hunting from temporary stalking. Obviously, many hunters immediately theorized the usual conspiracy theses ("who knows why always on the open hunt") but it would be enough to observe that it is DISCOUNTED that with the migrants also the avian arrives. Most of them, on the other hand, have not grasped the great merit of the hunters themselves for the protection of the zootechnical agricultural sector, although in the provision it is reported that the virus was identified thanks to the active health surveillance program prepared by the Region and implemented with the Hunters of anatidae who have offered to cooperate.
The authentic news
In fact, the real news is that THANKS TO THE HUNTERS, AND IN PARTICULAR TO THOSE OF THE 12 FIXED STATIONS OF AQUATIC HUNTING IN WHICH THE ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE CHECKS ARE MADE ON THE WILD CUT TO LOOK FOR THE VIRUS, THE ARRIVAL OF THE AVI FLUARDIA IS IN LAND IT WAS IDENTIFIED BEFORE FOCOLAI BREAKS OUT IN THE AREA'S FARMERS. The decision of the Region to ask for the collaboration of hunters as "sentinels" made it possible to take immediate measures to protect a strategic economic sector (and ... public finances), since prevention will certainly reduce the spread of the virus, avoiding the culling of mass with disposal of poultry carcasses with costs borne by Lombard citizens. THE HUNTERS ENGAGED IN ACTIVE MONITORING HAVE GIVEN, AND WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE, A PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SERVICE OF GREAT RELEVANCE, AND THEY ARE GIVING IT WITH THE FACTS AND WITH VOLUNTARY WORK, UNLIKE THE QUAQUARAQUA WITH THE SUPPORT OF TELEKABUL, TO CONTINUALLY BLAME THE HUNTERS FOR THE AVIARIA ITSELF. RATHER THE HUNTERS, WHO CERTAINLY DO NOT COMMAND THE MIGRATIONS OF INFECTED ANIMALS, ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN MONITOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE VIRUS WITH WILD ANIMALS, ALLOWING THE REGIONS TO TAKE SUITABLE MEASURES AT LEAST TO REDUCE THE BORN.
Using callouts
Furthermore, it cannot go unnoticed that the use of calls of anseriformes and charadriformes at the fixed postings is not suspended: tese and "sguàss" will continue to use them: the use of calls of these species has been allowed in Lombardy thanks to the Region that has decided to implement the program of collaboration with hunters and the 12 fixed stalks that are engaging in the collection of biological samples on the culled wild. In fact, the provision of the Director General of the DG Animal Health of the Ministry of Health of 1 September 2022 in fact expressly provides that "the Regions and Autonomous Provinces may authorize the use of decoy birds belonging to the Orders of Anseriformes and Charadriformes provided that they are also used as sentinel birds for surveillance purposes for the search for avian influenza viruses and in compliance with the following general and particular conditions ".
Mobile workstations
The first condition was the "Planning by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces by 18 September 2022 of an active surveillance plan in hunted migratory aquatic birds with particular regard to anatidae as well as the decoy birds used for hunting activities such as to allow the 'early detection of HPAI virus circulation in wild birds ”; Among the conditions of use of the calls, it is then read in the same provision that when the samples are not in significant numbers, the use of calls of anseriformes and charadriformes will generally be suspended. To date, however, the use of “mobile posts” (ed: temporary posting), in the presence of the virus, is considered to cause excessive risk, attributable precisely to the handling of the calls, which can become a factor in the potential spread of the disease. If Lombard citizens will save hundreds of thousands of euros, if many farms do not see their work literally go up in smoke, if it is possible to continue to use the calls for hunting aquatic animals at least from a fixed position (and who knows that in the future it will not succeed. also for the temporary) even in the presence of the virus it will be thanks to the 12 fixed stalks, to their hunters, engaged in the collection of samples in the culled animals and to the Region that has understood what can be the fundamental role that hunting can have in health prevention ( Avv. Lorenzo Bertacchi Regional President of FIDC Lombardia - Alberto Bocchi ACMA contact for Lombardy).