9 Dec 2009

Flu outbreak in pig farm


Some days ago there has been an outbreak of swine flu in a pig farm in Italy. The animals have been infected at the end of November by the H1N1 virus at a farm in Nerviano, near Milano, Lombardia. According to the report of the Italian Ministry of Health (through OIE), "the breeding sows were sick with lack of appetite, weakness and fever. All sows recovered fully in few days". There were 375 infected pigs out of 1250. There hasn't been any death and no control measures will be applied.
Untill now the Italian newspapers and televisions haven't covered this story, while reporting about a cat infected in France and two dogs in China, and also a pig in Germany. The German health Ministry has asked the ill farmers to stay away from the animals. In Italy there is no news about control measures.

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