The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed further cases of bluetongue (BTV-3) across the UK.<\/p>\n
Four new cases were confirmed in England from 23 to 25 October, two involving sheep and two involving cattle.<\/p>\n
A bovine case has been found in Wales over the same time period, although there have been no new cases in Scotland.<\/p>\n
These most recent findings bring the UK\u2019s confirmed cases of bluetongue virus to 3,445, of which 2,898 have been detected in England, 493 in Wales and 54 in Scotland.<\/p>\n
Republic of Ireland<\/p>\n
In the Republic of Ireland, BTV-3 has now been identified across 15 counties with Co Leitrim being the latest to confirm cases of the virus in a herd of cattle. <\/p>\n
An update from the Department of Agriculture Food and Marine (DAFM) on Tuesday 27 October also confirmed cases of BTV-3 in Co Meath involving sheep. <\/p>\n
DAFM\u2019s latest update is that there have been 62 confirmed cases of BTV-3, with 58 of these involving cattle and four in sheep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed further cases of bluetongue (BTV-3) across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[129438,7663,49786,5040,103,61,60,25524,283159,5907,43,2443,9036,24117,1577,4933],"class_list":["post-668521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bluetongue","tag-cattle","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-england","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leitrim","tag-lucy-christie","tag-more","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-sheep","tag-uk","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668521","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=668521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}