Swine fever: inspection in Genoa by European community inspectors – Primocanale.it
Genoa – Genoa, Liguria and southern Piedmont under the lens of the European Community inspectors. Next week, officials from the European Food Safety Authority will land in Italy to check whether health authorities and local administrators are adequately addressing the spread of African swine fever found among the wild boar colonies of the two regions.
The community inspectors will visit the structures of the Genoese Asl3 and the rest of the red zone outlined for almost a month to contain a virus that threatens to bring the important economy of the food sector derived from pork to its knees.
A turnover of 20 million a month for exports alone.
The news of the arrival of the inspectors of the European community while the remains of the remains of dead wild boar carcasses between Liguria and lower Piedmont: the last four were sighted in the monitoring carried out by the gamekeeper in the Bisagno shorea Genoa.
Two carcasses were found near the former Guglielmetti workshop, two others under the cover of the stream, in front of the Staglieno motorway exit: one of these wild boars should have been dead for almost a month.
In all, the hunting guards in the river bed counted 120 wild boars in the wild: leaders that will be killed to prevent the spread of the infection.
Operation that does not promise to be simple due to the possible mobilization of animal welfare associations from all over Italy who are clogging up the Region and Asl e-mail boxes with the threatening slogan: “Hands off the wild boars of Bisagno”.
Animalists who will demonstrate in piazza de Ferrari on the afternoon of Friday 4 February. Same fate for the approximately 400 pigs reared in the red zone.
The cases of wild boar positive for the virus in Genoa meanwhile remain 14, with one case awaiting confirmation.
In recent days, many ungulate carcasses have been found lifeless: between these two in Mignanego, in Valpolcevera, in the area of the Casa della Salute Doria di Struppa.
A lifeless wild boar even on the platforms of the Granarolo station, here, however, killing the animal, a puppy, was not the virus but a train arriving from Switzerland and bound for the Genova Principe station.