{"id":620717,"date":"2026-09-19T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:40:21","slug":"bluetongue-vaccine-back-in-stock-as-cases-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620717\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetongue vaccine back in stock as cases rise again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fw-regular font-19 lh-base font-fraunces mb-4\">Virbac\u2019s Syvazul BTV 3 has been in and out of stock amid \u201cunprecedented\u201d demand.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"author_img\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"42\" height=\"42\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-circle\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789796420_696_image.png\"\/>Share<img alt=\"Bluetongue vaccine back in stock as cases rise again\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-100 h-auto mb-2\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789796421_52_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-muted\">Cows and sheep graze on land on Romney Marsh, Kent. Stephen \/ Adobe Stock<\/p>\n<p>Virbac has announced its Syvazul BTV 3 bluetongue vaccine for cattle and sheep is now back in stock with a reliable supply.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmaceutical company said the vaccine has been in and out of stock due to unprecedented high demand from vets and farmers, but is now in stock and available with wholesalers.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Kearney, product manager at Virbac, said: \u201cThe virus will peak in late September to early October, but infected midges are expected to remain active until November\/December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyvazul offers the current market standard of vaccination in cattle with a reduction of viraemia, as well as reducing viraemia, mortality and clinical signs in sheep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccination remains our best defence against bluetongue, and it isn\u2019t too late to protect cattle and sheep during the outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Measures<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Defra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vettimes.com\/news\/vets\/livestock\/defra-announces-new-faster-bluetongue-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced new measures<\/a> it hopes will speed up bluetongue diagnoses during the ongoing outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>According to latest official figures, 1,338 BTV-3 incidents have now been confirmed across the UK since the start of July, with a further 1,616 potential cases currently under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virbac\u2019s Syvazul BTV 3 has been in and out of stock amid \u201cunprecedented\u201d demand. Share Cows and sheep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-620717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}