2024-08-15 08:59:50
Three outbreaks have been confirmed last week in the Nord region, Aisne and Ardennes departments. France has launched a vaccination campaign.
The Moselle department announced on Thursday that two outbreaks of bluetongue serotype 3 have been confirmed near Thionville and that the department has monitored a number of farms with animals showing clinical signs of the disease.
The Prefect of the Moselle department announced in a press release that the National Reference Laboratory (ANSES) confirmed two outbreaks of the new serotype FCO on August 8 at two sheep farms in the Thionville region. Thionville is about twenty kilometers from the Luxembourg-German border where cases have been detected.
Three houses affected last week
Three outbreaks have been confirmed last week, one in the North, the Aisne and the Ardennes. On August 2, a so-called “controlled” restricted area was established within 150 kilometers of the confirmed epidemics in Belgium and France.
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The county recalled that the state covered the cost of the visit and travel expenses for the veterinarian, as well as the cost of collecting blood samples and analyzing them at an approved laboratory. As of August 8, the Netherlands recorded 2,909 outbreaks on Monday and Germany recorded 1,885 new serotype 3 outbreaks.
Bluetongue, which is not contagious to humans, manifests itself in fever, breathing problems, tongue hanging, and even the loss of pregnant pups, and sometimes in animal death, in varying proportions depending on the species. Unlike bird flu, its detection does not lead to animals being slaughtered. The French government has also launched a vaccination campaign.
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