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The National Association of Italian Veterinary Physicians, or ANMVI reports 5 dogs and a cat from a poultry farm in Brescia, in Lombardy area, have actually checked positive for influenza A(H5N1) infection, according to a local media account.
This farm is presently home to a break out of bird influenza. Furthermore, the infection is the exact same as cases discovered in seagulls.
However, we need to not facilitate alarmism, the report continues. Although a marker of mammalian adjustment was discovered in the birds, in this case the dogs and cats in which seroconversion (i.e., the existence of noticeable antibodies) was established had actually just remained in close contact with a high variety of birds in a rural poultry farm where there was a break out of bird influenza.
These are thought about erratic and separated cases that take place just under specific conditions.
The Ministry of Health continues to keep an eye on the scenario. As per procedure, the Directorate-General for Animal Health and Veterinary Medicines has actually already notified the local departments of the licensed seroconversion of the dogs and cats that resided in this poultry farm in Brescia which was already kept under control due to a break out of high pathogenicity discovered in the birds reproduced here.
The Reference Center of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) performed the hereditary analysis of the infection discovered in the birds that passed away in the abovementioned break out, discovering traces of the H5N1 infection coming from the 2.3.4.4b clade, the exact same infection that had actually been formerly discovered in some northern Italian gulls.
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The list below suggestions are used:
- seasonal influenza vaccination for staff who, due to work factors, touch with animals that might be a source of infection
- keeping track of the health status of exposed individuals
- prevent touching and entering contact with any domestic or wild animals or indications of health problem that you might discover around
- execution of monitoring strategies in wild birds
- offered the recent cases of H5N1 infection in foxes and of seroconversion in some dogs and cats in Brescia, augmentation of passive monitoring in wild mammals (with specific referral to topics discovered dead)
- prevent contact in between outdoors animals and farmed animals
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