Schmallenberg Virus – A New Risk in Cattle Breeding in Europe

Barbara Cioch; Ewa Czerniawska-Piątkowska

doi:10.2478/aoas-2014-0045

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Schmallenberg Virus – A New Risk in Cattle Breeding in Europe

Annals of Animal Science

Volume 14 (2014): Issue 3 (July 2014)

By: Barbara Cioch and Ewa Czerniawska-Piątkowska

Open Access

|Jul 2014

Abstract

Since august 2011 europe has been facing a new virus which attacks the domestic and wild ruminants. The virus was named after the town where the first isolation had been made. The virus in question is transmitted by the biting midges (Culicoides spp.) and it can survive the winter in the bodies of those insects. it is also known that the virus does not endanger human health and it cannot be transferred directly from one animal to another because it is only carried by the vectors.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aoas-2014-0045 | Journal eISSN: 2300-8733 | Journal ISSN: 1642-3402

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Language: English

Page range: 501 - 510

Submitted on: Nov 10, 2013

Accepted on: Apr 16, 2014

Published on: Jul 29, 2014

Published by: National Research Institute of Animal Production

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: Volume open

Keywords:

cattle,

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Zoology,

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