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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]
EHD has been found in some domestic ruminants and many species of deer including white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope. [4] Seropositive black-tailed deer , fallow deer , red deer , wapiti , and roe deer have also been found, which essentially means that they were exposed to the disease at some time in the past but may not ...
It is the causative agent of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, an acute, infectious, and often fatal disease of wild ruminants. In North America, the most severely affected ruminant is the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), although it may also infect mule deer, black-tailed deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope. [1]
The ban is linked to a CWD-positive 5-year-old white-tailed buck at Heavy Horn ... Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose. It is caused by a infectious ...
France reported a first outbreak of the BTV3 bluetongue disease on a sheep farm near the Belgian border earlier this week. The virus, spread by insects and which can be deadly for sheep, cattle ...
Portugal has reported an outbreak of bluetongue disease on a sheep farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Wednesday, citing Portuguese authorities. Bluetongue can be deadly for ...
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.
Denmark reported Tuesday cases of bluetongue in the country's east, a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease that is harmless to humans but can be fatal for so-called ruminant animals ...