Aviaria, Ricciardi: “Let’s hope there isn’t a leap of species from animal to man”

On avian outbreaks, in Ostia Antica and in other farms in Italy, “we hope there is no jump in species, the ‘spillover’. But we must do as our veterinary colleagues are doing, that is, isolate the outbreaks, kill all the animals, block in the bud because the risk is always there. In 2009 we had a pandemic of avian flu, fortunately it died out by itself and there was no need for vaccination. But the fight that viruses and bacteria make to humans has lasted for 2000 years, they were the masters of the world. The vaccine is the main tool “. This was stated by Walter Ricciardi, consultant to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, guest of ‘Agorà’ on RaiTre, responding to a question on the risks associated with the various avian outbreaks found in poultry farms both in the Verona area and in Ostia.