The alarm is very serious and should not be underestimated. Some wild boars killed in the province of Vibo Valentia are results positive for tuberculosis after the examinations of the Provincial Health Authority. This is not an isolated case as regards Calabria, given that the same problem had already been encountered some time ago in the Catanzaro area, now we have to deal with more than 40 infected carcasses.
The fear is that an epidemic could break out in the area between Angitolano, the Serre and the Preserre. Consumers of these meats and hunters are therefore on alert and in at least three cases tuberculosis has been detected in the Vibonese area. The Municipalities of Capistrano e San Nicola da Crissa they ordered the destruction of wild boars: it is worth remembering how the transmission of the disease from man to animal occurs through direct contact or by eating undercooked meat.
Obviously, citizens will be advised several times not to consume uncontrolled meat to avoid health problems. The spontaneous committee for the containment of the species has been asking for months the resolution of problems related to the excessive presence of wild animals, the hope is that this emergency can lead to targeted and definitive interventions.
For some years and, in particular, in the current one, numerous news outlets have been reporting news of "suspected" cases of tuberculosis in the carcasses of wild boars killed in the provinces of Vibo, Reggio and Catanzaro.
However, to date, with all my efforts, I have not been able to find and view any results certified by laboratory tests that confirm this ascertained pathology.
I do not know that any measures, certainly necessary, have been taken with regard to health attention on other non-wild animals, in particular cattle as the main host of infections by “Mycobacterium bovis e caprae”, intended for human consumption.
Necessary as the wild boar is a "sentinel" animal that warns us of the presence and spread of this infection in other mammals.
We do not find any slightest note from the Health Protection Department of the Calabria Region and there is no involvement of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute.
I ask myself the question: why did you see the full-blown alarm?
For more than five decades, public opinion has been regularly "terrified" with non-existent or less deleterious alarmisms than expected (mad cow, avian, swine fever, milk with melanin, wild boar contaminated with cesium, etc.), in this case here we go again?
I have several perplexities.