Italy: H7N3 LPAI in Bergamo

16 May 2010

Low pathogenic influenza (serotype H7N3) was detected in two holdings (April 2010), a dealer with 200 heads of poultry and another with 3,000 layers in Rogno in the province of Bergamo.
The two farms are considered a single epidemiological unit-Close proximity-No functional separation. On 16/04/2010 all birds in the affected holdings were depopulated.