We report the incredible release of the LAV (Anti-Vivisection League)"Despite last November 4, with note no. 23822 issued by the General Directorate of Animal Health and Veterinary Drugs, the Ministry of Health has suspended the use of live calls for hunting, belonging to the orders of the Charadriforms and Anseriformssuch as woodcocks and mallards, the number of wild animals carrying highly pathogenic avian influenza continues to increase. The National Reference Center of the Ministry of Health forbird flu, in fact, announces that it has identified the presence of the H5 virus in as many as 92 bird samples killed by hunters in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, while 2 other cases have been identified in birds found dead.
Hunting, therefore, is configured as a possible source of a new spillover, extremely dangerous not only for hunters, possibly responsible for the species jump of a virus from animal to man, but also for all citizens who could then be infected by them. . It is the same National Center for Avian Influenza, established at the Zooprophylactic Institute of the Venezie, who, precisely with regard to the virus that wild birds could carry, on the page of the institutional website dedicated to avian flu, specifies that "there is a concrete possibility that a new virus for the which the human population is susceptible giving way to the disease extend globally, thus causing a pandemic ”.
In a period in which our country is subjected to the worrying spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, it is not clear why hunters can continue undisturbed to kill and manipulate potentially infected animals. We ask that the Minister of Health Hope with an urgent Ordinance will immediately suspend hunting of all migratory species ".