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 ...

Bluetongue is a notifiable disease in the UK and suspected cases must be reported immediately to the local Animal Health Office. The geographic distribution of bluetongue is dependent upon the ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The marked changes in the epidemiology of BT do not seem to be caused by biotic factors (for example, pathogen characteristics and ...