Bluetongue news
Culicoides midges spread bluetongue virus and other viruses e.g. African horse sickness virus. Two videos are available, showing how and why IAH scientists capture midges in the field.
IAH has contributed to three videos, available online, that explain the background to bluetongue in Britain, and the vaccine campaign against it.
How the Institute responded, and continues to respond, to bluetongue in Britain is described in a number of our archived News items.
- IAH confirms another new serotype of bluetongue virus, in Belgium - 11 February 2009
- IAH bluetongue experts on the BBC World Service - 17 December 2008
- Bluetongue: IAH experts advise against complacency in 2009 - 8 December 2008
- Institute for Animal Health enters into a license agreement with Qiagen for bluetongue virus test
- Bluetongue virus type 6 in the Netherlands: new data relevant to the origin of the virus
- New serotype of bluetongue virus detected in Switzerland, in goats
- How does bluetongue virus survive the winter? A question of practical importance.
- New project to assess bluetongue vaccination in UK
- Bluetongue virus might survive the winter within foetuses
- Institute for Animal Health at Compton hosts a conference on bluetongue for members of the National Farmers? Union
- How the Institute for Animal Health rapidly diagnoses bluetongue
- The midges that first brought bluetongue virus to the UK were probably blown in on the night of 4-5 August 2007.
- IAH scientists use a light trap to catch midges in the field
- Bluetongue virus serotype 8 probably survived within adult midges during the 2006/2007 winter in neighbouring northern European countries.
- How IAH diagnosed the first British outbreak of bluetongue
- IAH scientists predicted that conditions in Britain were suitable for the spread of bluetongue virus
- The potential of easterly winds to bring bluetongue virus-infected midges to Britain.
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