Three cases of swine fever on as many animals from a farm in Dorgali plunge Sardinia back into the nightmare of the virus. On an island that seemed to have freed itself from the disease after decades of an embargo on meat and animals, there is also a hypothesis: the infections discovered could be genotype 2.
It means that it is not the swine fever that circulated in the past in the farms and countryside of Sardinia, but the type that is spreading across the Peninsula and causing mass slaughter. Imported, therefore.
The news was given this morning during the meeting of the Agriculture commission of the Regional Council, convened precisely to talk about the measures to be adopted on pigs in light of the (excellent) results of the eradication campaign. Mayors of Barbagia also participated.
«The reasons of our mayors», says the regional councilor of the Democratic Party Salvatore Corrias, «are our reasons. After so many sacrifices, it is time for our communities to leave the red zone Indian reserve , to which the latest implementing regulation forces us. We ask the regional council to find the right solution and give the right guarantees to the farmers of Supramonte and Gennargentu, who have placed their legitimate expectations in it. We are ready to give our contribution."
«The identification of cases», explains the president of the parliament, Piero Maieli, «means that our control system works. Now it is necessary to identify the origin of the infection."
«We are faced with the possibility that it is genotype 2», adds health councilor Carlo Doria, «which is not indigenous. So it would be a case of import. We await the results of the analyses."
The crucial question, in the event of confirmation of the entry of the new virus into Sardinia, would be: how did it enter?
