A 20km temporary control zone is in place after the disease was identified in two cows at a holding near Bangor, County Down.

A sheep affected by blue tongue disease. Photo: Filippo MONTEFORTE/AFP. Ever since the bluetongue virus struck nearly a year ago, German farmer Ortrun Humpert has cared for sick sheep to contain a ...

Pastoralists in Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) areas in Narok are counting losses after losing their sheep and goats to the deadly blue tongue disease. The viral disease characterised by excessive ...

ROME (Reuters) - On the island of Sardinia, a bedrock of Italian sheep farming, breeder Michela Dessi has seen 150 of her flock die and 140 lose their lambs in the last few months due to an ...

Bluetongue can cause nosebleeds, swollen heads, fever and turn an infected animal's tongue blue - Copyright AFP Filippo MONTEFORTE Bluetongue can cause nosebleeds ...

"Sheep vaccinated in March." But they're not doing well: they've been struck by blue tongue. One lamb is dead, other animals can't stand. The images are clear: they come from Bultei, and they're ...

Restrictions put in place to help prevent the spread of blue tongue are due to be eased from today although the virus which attacks cattle has now spread to a sheep. Blue tongue disease had been found ...

The European Commission has approved the payment of €67.1m by the Italian government, to help the Sardinian sheep-meat sector recover from an outbreak of Blue Tongue disease, (ovine catarrhal fever), ...

Greece has reported 10 outbreaks of the BTV3 bluetongue virus in sheep and goats on farms in the northeastern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday, ...

Spanish bulls are under threat — not from bullfighters, but from illness. Jerome Socolovsky reports from Spain where the spread of a livestock epidemic called "blue tongue" has forced the cancellation ...