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Electron micrograph of Bluetongue virus, scale bar = 50 nm. Bluetongue (BT) disease is a noncontagious, arthropod-borne viral disease affecting ruminants, [1] primarily sheep and other domestic or wild ruminants, including cattle, yaks, [2] goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries, and antelope. [3]
Bluetongue virus (BTV) is a dsRNA virus of the genus Orbivirus. The virus causes Bluetongue disease . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] BTV is relatively fragile and its infectivity is lost in slightly acidic environments.
PARIS (Reuters) -Austria has reported two outbreaks of bluetongue disease on cattle farms, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday, including one with the virus that has ...
Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat. [1]
A new strain of the animal disease, which is spread by midges, is expected to re-enter Britain through infected insects blown on the wind. Experts warn of ‘very high probability’ bluetongue ...
Italy has reported outbreaks of bluetongue disease in sheep, cattle and a camel, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, but the variant is different from the one that ...
The outbreak was detected on a sheep farm with 157 animals in the town of Torre dos Coelheiros. Some 15 sheep were affected by the virus and a single one died of it, the report says.
Bluetongue disease: Culicoid midge: Orbivirus (virus) Cattle, sheep: Fever, salivation, swelling of face and tongue: Europe, Africa: Vaccination Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) Various assassin bugs of subfamily Triatominae: Trypanosoma cruzi (protozoan) Mild symptoms, then chronic heart or brain inflammation: Central and South America