General Information on Bluetongue
Disease information
Includes videos, presentation and website links on Bluetongue.
Bluetongue vaccination videos from Farmers Weekly – see videos
Follow this link for up-to-date information on the current bluetongue situation – Visit DEFRA website
BVA pages covering bluetongue, including links to images which may assist with disease recognition, may also be found here
Bluetongue images and similar symptoms which are not bluetongue: bluetongue_images.pdf
- Control BTV (powerpoint 60kb)
- Symptoms (powerpoint 6Mb)
- Cattle BTV (powerpoint 4Mb)
- Bluetongue BTV (powerpoint 3.5 Mb)
Images taken from 2 rams clinically affected with Bluetongue and submitted for post-mortem examination are available on VLA’s website: www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/vla/science/science-viral-bluetongue-sheep.htm
(The site also contains images of BTV affected cattle submitted for PME)
APHA have produced a series of animations to provide you with the key facts about this disease. Read more https://gov.uk/guidance/bluetongue
View animations 1 to 4 below for further information:
Find out about the risk of bluetongue disease spreading into the UK in the APHA video http://bit.ly/1T24Nfo in collaboration with @Pirbright_Inst
More about bluetongue transmission, clinical signs & pathology: http://bit.ly/1rwWFKz in collaboration with @Pirbright_Inst
Bluetongue is a notifiable disease which can affect ruminant animals. Find out more on http://bit.ly/1WdzthR in collaboration with @Pirbright_Inst