Pastoralists in Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) areas in Narok are counting losses after losing their sheep and goats to the deadly blue tongue disease. The viral disease characterised by excessive ...

A strain of the bluetongue virus has been confirmed in a sheep in Cornwall for the first time in 17 years. The Animal and Plant Health Agency said bluetongue (BTV-8) was found in a premises near ...

The European Commission has approved the payment of €67.1m by the Italian government, to help the Sardinian sheep-meat sector recover from an outbreak of Blue Tongue disease, (ovine catarrhal fever), ...

Bluetongue virus, an incurable cattle and sheep-killing disease, is spread by tiny flies once thought to disappear in winter. New research demonstrates that though they are harder to find when it's ...