Swine fever, dozens of pigs in the wild killed in Urzulei
The Project Unit has identified about forty animals without owners and without medical-veterinary control
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Forty pigs in the wild have been identified and killed in the countryside of Urzulei, to prevent possible outbreaks of swine fever.
The animals were not registered in the zootechnical registry and lacked owners and health checks.
“These activities - explains a note from the Region - are part of the actions to combat the African swine fever virus which see the fight against illegal pig breeding as one of the most important risk factors for the persistence of the virus in those territories. As the European inspectors also pointed out in the report just arrived after the mission that took place on the island from 9 to 19 November 2021, these animals are the true transmission belt of the virus between the wild population and domestic animals ".
"The Inspectors of Brussels - continues the Region - have recognized that the activities carried out in recent years have drastically reduced the number of these animals and therefore the circulation of the virus, and in any case they reiterated how it is necessary to complete the actions on the territory".
"Once again the appeal of the Region and Project Unit is addressed to those few who still resist to comply, especially in areas where the eradication of the virus could be an extraordinary driving force for the relaunch of the sector, in particular of quality delicatessen ".
In recent days the appearance, in Villagrande Strisaili, of some threatening writings against the Project Unit that deals with the fight against the virus. An act, comments Villa Devoto, "is firmly rejected by the President of the Region, Christian Solinas, who expresses all the solidarity and full confidence in the work of the head of the project unit and of all the components" for the extraordinary work they are doing. carrying out in the interest of the island. The recent report by the European Commission confirms the goodness of the work that is being done. Now we await the recognition of the enormous progress made with the release of exports ".
(Unioneonline / lf)
