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TheDairySite Bluetongue Disease News
Bluetongue Disease
Latest Bluetongue Disease News
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Bluetongue Zone Gets Bigger: FMD Restrictions Eased UK - Hours after the Government freed much of Great Britain from foot-and-mouth movement restrictions yesterday, the Bluetongue Protection Zone gobbled up another huge part of England.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Download A Licence To Slaughter UK - Defra has issued a licence permitting the movement of ruminating animals out of a Bluetongue Protection Zone or Control Zone to slaughter.
BT Control Map Lines Must Not Do More Harm Than Good UK - Governments must continue to be careful that map lines designed to slow down the spread of Bluetongue (BT) do not wreak more economic damage on the livestock industry than the disease itself.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Cost Of The Bluetongue Trap UK - With thousands of slaughter cattle ‘trapped’ east of the Bluetonque demarcation line, supplies to supermarkets could be affected and store cattle sales could be hit by the absence of some of the biggest buyers in the country
Thursday, October 11, 2007
UK Control Zone Creeps Outwards UK - Defra today announced that the existing Bluetongue Control and Protection Zones are being extended following confirmation of further cases of Bluetongue in Essex.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Bluetongue in Corsica: SPOT Reveals Midges Habitat
EU- Until 1998, bluetongue was seen as an exotic disease in Europe. However, it is now firmly established around the Mediterranean and has also recently (since 2006) been affecting northern Europe. Anzeige.
EU- Until 1998, bluetongue was seen as an exotic disease in Europe. However, it is now firmly established around the Mediterranean and has also recently (since 2006) been affecting northern Europe. Anzeige.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Whole Country May Be Bluetongue Zone UK - The Government and livestock industry are discussing the possibility of turning the whole of England or Great Britain into one Bluetongue Protection Zone.
Extend Bluetongue Zone Plea US - Five more cases of bluetongue disease were confirmed on farms in East Anglia yesterday bringing the total in the country's first outbreak to 24.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Bluetongue crisis ravaged northern Europe
EU - When Germany confirmed its first case of bluetongue last year it proved to be the beginning of a massive animal health crisis on the Continent.
EU - When Germany confirmed its first case of bluetongue last year it proved to be the beginning of a massive animal health crisis on the Continent.
Kansas Begs For Caution, Not Fear Of Bluetongue MANHATTAN -- Livestock producers in the United States should be cautious but not overly fearful of bluetongue virus, according to a veterinary laboratory director at Kansas State University.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
'Trapped' Sheep Could Face Cull UK - Tens of thousands of sheep from a breed only produced in Kent and East Sussex could be culled because of restrictions on moving them. Farmers said 100,000 Romney sheep were trapped on the marsh because it falls on the wrong side of the bluetongue...
Monday, October 01, 2007
Consequences Of Bluetongue Would Be Serious UK - With a fifth case of Bluetongue confirmed in the East of England, the Ulster Farmers’ Union has urged local farmers to familiarise themselves with the symptoms of the disease and be vigilant.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
France 'fighting bluetongue outbreak' FRANCE - France is fighting an outbreak of the livestock virus bluetongue disease, and there have been 2,246 cases, the French Agriculture Ministry said.
Bluetongue outbreak spreads into Portugal PORTUGAL - More than 40 farms in southern Portugal are believed to have been infected by bluetongue disease, eight days after the first case was reported, authorities said.
Bluetongue 'no immediate threat' to Scottish Farmers SCOTLAND - Scottish farms face no immediate danger from the bluetongue virus, according to the country's chief vet.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Farmers Braced For Bluetongue To Escalate Into An Outbreak UK - Farmers’ leaders are convinced that Britain is facing a full-blown outbreak of the bluetongue virus.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
New Virus 'Could Shut Down Our Livestock Industry' UK - Bluetongue disease would have a far greater impact on the country than foot and mouth -- effectively shutting down the country's livestock industry - Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan said yesterday.
Farmers Horrified By Third Case Of Bluetongue In Norfolk UK - The danger that the midge-born disease bluetongue will take hold in Britain appeared to increase last night after vets confirmed that a third animal had been diagnosed with the disease.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Second Case Of Bluetongue Found In Suffolk SUFFOLK - A second cow has tested positive for bluetongue at the rare breeds farm where the UK's first case of the disease was discovered, raising the nightmare for farmers of the infection spreading across Britain.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Brussels hoping for new bluetongue vaccine next year BRUSSELS — The EU Commission hopes for a vaccine next year to protect farms against the bluetongue strain moving northwards through Europe, and is planning rule changes to help, a spokesman said Monday.
