Science news articles about 'bluetongue'

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU farmers have mostly started vaccinating animals against bluetongue, the virus that ravaged northern Europe's cattle and sheep in 2007, but success depends on vaccine supply and ...

... we couldn't have achieved this without the effort and knowledge of the scientists at IAH. Bluetongue shares its transmission vector - the midge - with other exotic, but equally serious, diseases such ...

Scientists are stepping up the battle against the devastating and economically damaging bluetongue virus. By combining ingenious ways to trap and monitor midges with cutting edge computer modeling and ...

... neck which can lead to cyanosis of the tongue (after which the disease is named). BT is caused by the bluetongue virus (BTV) and due to its economic significance BTV has been the subject of extensive ...

... long time even after the infection has passed. The answer is also relevant to how we can deal with bluetongue and other unpleasant midge-transmitted diseases in the future. Dr Mellor said: "Although ...

Ecologists have developed a new technique for genetically "bar-coding" biting midges that could help prevent the spread of bluetongue -- a serious animal disease -- in the UK.

British authorities said Tuesday they have found a new strain of the livestock disease bluetongue in imported cattle, but said there is no evidence that it has spread beyond the affected premises.

Another case of livestock disease bluetongue has been detected in a calf in Austria, the second within the space of just over a month, the Health Ministry said Friday.

... an impact on the fundamental understanding of the structure-function relationships underpinning bluetongue virus replication," said Professor Roy. "It will also contribute to the understanding of ...

Meanwhile, researchers identify yet another strain of the livestock virus

... can be spread great distances quickly by the wind," Higgs said. "But it seems clear that Bluetongue's dispersal has been driven by the northward expansion of Culex imicola, and that climate change ...

... different routes since 1998", said Professor Mertens, "This indicates that there has been a fundamental shift in bluetongue epidemiology, linked to climate change. In 2008 the UK vaccinated over 10 ...

... are likely to be carried on the wind from the continent to the UK and Channel Islands. "The bluetongue virus, BTV, represents a major and unprecedented epidemic which has spread across Western Europe ...