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PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE
Volume 87, Issue 1-2, Pages 4-20Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.06.002
Keywords
bluetongue; Culicoides; vectors; Europe; incursions; climate-change
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/I/00000999] Funding Source: Medline
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/I/00000999] Funding Source: researchfish
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Bluetongue virus (BTV) exists around the world in a broad hand covering much of the Americas. Africa. Southern Asia and northern Australia. Historically, it also occasionally occurred in the Southern fringes of Europe. It is considered to he one of the most important diseases of domestic livestock. Recently BTV has extended its range northwards into areas of Europe never before affected and has persisted in many of these locations causing the greatest epizootic of bluetongue (BT), the disease caused by BTV, oil record. Indeed. the most recent outbreaks of BT in Europe are further north than this virus has ever Previously Occurred anywhere in the world. The reasons for this dramatic change in BT epidemiology are complex but are linked to recent extensions in the distribution of its major vector, Culicoides imicola. to the involvement of novel Culicoides vector(s) and to on-going climate-change. This Paper investigates these recent outbreaks in the European theatre, up to the beginning of 2006. highlights prospects for the future and sets the scene for the following Papers in this special issue. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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