BENV
Bollettino Epidemiologico Nazionale Veterinario

The current SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic offers the starting point to examine the current relationship between man and nature at a global level, and how this cannot be discussed in isolation from the health aspects related to the emergence of new viruses and pathogens with pandemic capacity...

Francesca Dall'Acqua
COVEPI, IZSAM

Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus is a single negative-strand RNA virus, belonging to the order Bunyavirales, the family Phenuiviridae and the genus Phlebovirus. RVF is a mosquito-borne viral disease affecting both domestic and wild ruminants, especially sheep, cattle and goats as well as humans (OIE, 2019) and it is transmitted primarily by Culex spp. and Aedes spp. mosquitoes...

Paolo Calistri
COVEPI, IZSAM

The causative agent of African swine fever is a unique member of the Asfarviridae family, the Asfivirus (ASFV); a genetically complex double-stranded DNA virus. Twenty-three genotypes have been described based on the partial sequences of the p72 gene. All of them are present in Africa, whereas only genotypes I and II have been found outside of the African continent...

Maria Luisa Danzetta
COVEPI, IZSAM