Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Italy-Newcastle..It affects only birds.. #h5n1 #birdflu

L'Unione Sarda - Health and Social Affairs: It affects only birds 27.12.2011

"The Newcastle disease found in Sardinia for the first time should not be confused with the so-called bird flu." It clarifies the responsibility of the territorial Department of Cagliari in Sardinia IPA, Manuel Liciardi. "The Newcastle is also known as avian pseudo-plague, that the birds - continues Liciardi - and despite being very dangerous for the birds is not similar to bird flu. Therefore you should avoid alarmism and to clarify that there is no risk, since the Newcastle disease is not transmissible to man.

"For the director of Zooprophylactic Antonello Usai, "the recommendation is to increase the level of attention to the area because the disease is very dangerous for birds and can affect more than two hundred species. So please hunters and poultry farmers, quail and turkeys to report cases in which there is sudden high mortality of animals, because now that the disease has made ​​its appearance in Sardinia is necessary to increase the level of alert. "
Cases of Newcastle found these days and confirmed by the analysis to isolate the virus affected, for the first time in the island, over a hundred Collared Dove wild retrieved between November and December in some areas of Monastir, and Sestu Ussana.
 http://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/492?s=184297&v=2&c=1489&t=1

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