One is expected new regional ordinance, Wednesday, which in some way he will try to interpret and where possible to loosen up, especially in Ligurian capital, the restrictions currently in force and issued by the government to limit the spread of swine fever. “Within 36 hours we will tell mayors and citizens how to behave - explains the governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti -. Ours will be interpretations of what the government has decided. Then we will evaluate a reduction of mass of wild boars in the red zone and compensation for affected businesses. But a real picture of the situation - continues Toti - we will have it only at the end of the month after a search for carcasses in the woods.
In our ordinance, however, we will not go to oppose the one decided by the government but we will give our interpretations: for example, the wooded areas in the urban area (such as the Peralto park, ed.) could be made open according to an interpretation by the Liguria Region ". They will be maximum 10 thousand wild boars that will be killed in Liguria by Ligurian hunters to limit the spread of swine fever. “There will be selective hunting trips, without the use of dogs. But the jokes will have to be organized in a scientific way. Both in a buffer zone around the red zone, and within the red zone itself but in a number of smaller municipalities of those that are currently part of the red zone itself ”, underlines the regional councilor with responsibility for hunting, Alessandro Piana.
“The wild boar population present in Liguria before the start of the hunting season this year they were 80 thousand. With the hunt 18 thousand were shot down. Those that could be killed are between 5 thousand and 10 thousand ". The director ofZooprophylactic Institute of Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d'Aosta, Angelo Ferrari, in the press point following the summit with the Region explains: “The next two weeks will tell us more precisely which area is infected. The monitoring has started in Piedmont and Liguria, but we need time to learn more about the virus: we do not yet know the degree of pathogenicity nor the genotyping of the virus ".
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"The more pathogenic the virus - he explains - the shorter the outbreak will be". Onorigin of the disease, he specifies, “we can exclude that it comes from Sardinia. It could be of Balkan origin ”. Ferrari underlines that “we were not unprepared, since 2019 we have known that this virus has been circulating, but until 5 January we had not found any cases in our territory. We didn't expect an outbreak this soon". The real concern, he concludes, “is that the virus does not make the leap from wild to farmed because it would put the market in great difficulty. If he remains among the wild animals, the situation is critical, but manageable ". The head of the veterinary service of Alisa, the Ligurian health company, Roberto Moschi, adds: "With the collaboration of hunters and associations of trekking, we are organizing teams to enter the infected area, on tiptoe, without weapons and without dogs, in search of dead animals.
A large die-off of wild boars is expected ”. “In case of finding a carcass - explains the expert - the public veterinarian carries out on the spot the removal of the spleen, in conditions of biosecurity: operators must not approach dead animals, but do the georeferencing with the mobile phone. If the virus is found, a further confirmation passage is made to the central laboratory of the Zooprophylactic Institute in Perugia. All this takes place within three days ". Moschi adds that “the swine fever virus is stable and there are two genotypes, 1 and 2: the one found is of type 2 which has a territorial extension that covers from China to Belgium. The sequencing on the virus genome is ending and, at the end of this week, we should know something more precise "(Il Secolo XIX).
