Epidemiology of ASF: Knowing its Origins to Counter its Spread

Chair and introduces

Davide Berta – President of the Regional Pig Breeding Product Federation of Confagricoltura Lombardia

To the origins of the spread of Psa in northern Italy

Marco Farioli, director UO Veterinary, Department of Welfare, Region of Lombardy

Silvia Bellini, Head of Epidemiological Surveillance Structures Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia- Romagna

Followed by Speeches by

John Filippini – Special Commissioner at PSA

Vincenzo Traldi – Director Ats Cremona Mantova

Alessandro Beduschi (*) – Assessore all’Agricoltura, Sovranità Alimentare e Foreste di Regione Lombardia

Conclusions

Rudy Milani – President of the National Product Federation of Swine Breeding of Confagricoltura