"During the activity carried out by the undersigned association a environmental protection and of the health of all the citizens he had news of the presence of tuberculosis in wild boars killed by hunters in the province of Reggio. In this regard, he asked the Calabria region for information. Department of Health Protection and Health Policies - Sector 8 - Veterinary Health, SIAN area which promptly certified us with the certified e-mail of last 24 October that tuberculosis is present throughout the territory of Calabria in wild boars ". This was stated in a note by Vincenzo Crea Sole contact of ANCA.DI.C Responsible of the spontaneous Committee "Torrente Oliveto".
“Given the aforementioned communication, the fear that TB could again spread to humans and animals (domestic and otherwise) in our region is deemed justified. We therefore asked the competent authorities to know if they have already been adopted determinations to counter the spread of TB and if the wild boars killed by hunters, and later found affected by TB, are correctly disposed of, as required by law, or vice versa left in the woods as food for other carnivorous or omnivorous animals of most ecosystems ".
"From the communication of the Region the writer does not deduce whether veterinarians and microbiological laboratories formalize, as per law, the report of an infectious disease (TB) to the Local Health Authority (Mayor) for the relevant measures; it is also not specified whether the mycobacterium has been typed, just to be able to evaluate the danger of this local reality. It is recalled that in 2001 the global alliance was born Stop TB made up of over 1700 international organizations, including Italy with the Istituto Superiore della Sanità, coordinated by the WHO, with the aim of eliminating the TB epidemic in the world by 2030 (GlobalPlan to End TB 2016-2020) ". "The undersigned association, in addition to the Department of Health Protection and Health Policies - Sector 8 - Veterinary Health, SIAN Area, promptly interested the Minister of Health, the President of the Calabria region, the Mayor of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria and the Prefect of the Province of Reggio Calabria ”.