In view of the imminent start of the hunting season, scheduled for next 3 November, the Animal Health Service of Northern Sardinia has scheduled a series of training and information meetings in the area, in order to sensitize all hunters to compliance with the health measures for the African swine fever and for trichinella, to be applied on hunted wild boars.
The meetings, addressed exclusively to the representatives of the various hunting companies, will be held according to the following calendar:
ASSL Sassari: in Bono on 28 October at 18 pm in the municipal council chamber; in Ozieri on 29 October at 18 pm in the veterinary offices, San Nicola region; in Thiesi on 29 October at 18 pm in the Aligi Sassu room; in Sassari on 30 October at 18 pm in the meeting room in via Rizzeddu 21, on the ground floor of Palazzina F; in Nulvi on 31 October at 18 pm in the meeting room of Santa Tecla;
ASSL Olbia: in Olbia on 28 October at 11 am in via Barcellona 162; in Padru on 28 October at 16 pm at the municipal cultural center in via Roma; in Berchidda on 29 October at 16 pm at the Santa Croce theater; in Aggius on 29 October at 17 pm in the municipal council chamber.
On the occasion of the meetings, the Veterinary Service will deliver to the hunters, regardless of the hunting grounds, all the material necessary to carry out the sampling required by the legislation and to give all the information about the logistics. «It is hoped, also for this year, the collaboration of the hunters in order to reach a large sampling which allows to have more and more reliable information on the health situation of the wild, in order to be able to exclude that the African swine fever virus circulates among wild boars with risk of transmission to domestic servants»Explains the director of the Service, Francesco Sgarangella.
"In the last hunting season, the hunters conferred health samples from 6.065 wild boars of which 2.507 were killed in the Animal Health Service of Northern Sardinia. infected area. The demonstration of the absence of circulation of the virus in wild boars is of fundamental importance for the control of the disease in the territory and for the protection of domestic farms, as well as necessary to allow the revocation of the infected areas for the wild". The controls will also make it possible to exclude the presence of trichinellosis, still present in the regional territory, which is the cause of serious diseases linked to the consumption of possibly parasitic and uncontrolled meat.