Vets are investigating a suspect case of the virus in a cow which sits in the existing 20km Temporary Control Zone (TCZ) [Getty Images] A new suspected case of bluetongue virus (BTV) has been ...

Upon listening with a degree of concern over the last month or so, to vets within the department of agriculture and vets in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmers are still "very fearful" of the bluetongue virus although restrictions on livestock are easing, the Ulster Farmers' Union ...

Scotland outlines new summer controls on bluetongue, urging livestock keepers to vaccinate as tighter movement rules apply from June to September.

Culicoides biting midges are small, haemotophagous insects that play a critical role as vectors in the transmission of bluetongue virus, an orbivirus that adversely affects ruminant livestock. Their ...

There are "very serious" consequences for the agri-community in Northern Ireland if bluetongue virus (BTV-3) gets hold, the agriculture minister has said. Spread by midges, bluetongue poses no threat ...

A tiny midge, no bigger than a pinhead, is bringing UK farming to its knees. The culprit? A strain of the bluetongue virus that’s never been seen before. As of July 1, the whole of England has been ...

Data from the national veterinary prescription system shows that 1,157 cattle herds and 53 sheep flocks have had ...

ICMSA livestock chair, Michael O’Connell has said farmers should be encouraged and supported to vaccinate for bluetongue ...

The Department of Agriculture has announced bluetongue virus vaccination will be included among actions in the national sheep ...

New Jersey livestock owners are being warned to watch their animals for illness after the first cases of bluetongue virus in two deer have been confirmed by the State Department of Environmental ...

Burning carcasses and smoke for miles - 25 years since 'devastating' foot and mouth outbreak ...