{"id":262712,"date":"2026-01-25T04:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/262712\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:05:13","slug":"farm-organisations-urge-maximum-vigilance-in-response-to-first-bluetongue-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/262712\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm organisations urge \u2018maximum vigilance\u2019 in response to first bluetongue case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IFA president Francie Gorman.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4d60d171-faac-4842-850a-6b2f5da1a3cf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">IFA president Francie Gorman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Farm organisations have called for a \u201cwhole\u2011of\u2011sector response\u201d and maximum vigilance after the first case of bluetongue was confirmed in a Co Wexford herd, prompting immediate action across the livestock industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Department of Agriculture is continuing detailed investigations today after a bovine tested positive for bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV3) during routine surveillance, the first time the disease has been detected in the Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IFA president Francie Gorman. Farm organisations have called for a \u201cwhole\u2011of\u2011sector response\u201d and maximum vigilance after the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37550,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-262712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-ciaran-moran","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}