Midges 'actively spread' bluetongue epidemic

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 08:31 in Health & Medicine

The midges that spread bluetongue, a devastating livestock disease, across Europe in 2006 weren’t ‘passengers’ on the wind but actively transported the disease, Oxford University scientists have found.

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