Sheep Veterinary Society

For information – Gov.UK updates to various Bluetongue pages went live earlier this afternoon

Over the last few weeks APHA have been made aware of increasing reports of tick-borne disease cases in cattle and sheep. We have heard from practitioners in areas not typically associated with tick borne disease, seeing outbreaks on newly affected farms, some of which have high morbidity and/or mortality rates. This has especially been true for tick borne fever and babesiosis in cattle herds. Practitioners across GB should be aware of the clinical signs of tick-borne diseases (tick borne fever, babesiosis, louping ill, tick pyaemia) as it is likely that the geographical distribution of infection will continue to evolve with climatic and land use chan