Thursday, 14 February 2019

PRO/AH/EDR> Bluetongue - Europe (04): France, cattle, BTV-8, congenital

Bluetongue -- France
Several departments have informed us about numerous cases of calves born blind and dying within a few days.
These cases would have started to appear concomitantly in mid-December [2018] (at least 1 department had found such clinical signs on calves since 2016). [On affected farms], 2-15 percent of the newborn calves were affected.
According to the analyzes carried out in departmental laboratories (positive PCRs on blood samples from calves) and Maisons-Alfort's LNR-ANSES (positive PCR on

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