Vets across the county have encouraged farmers to take up the vaccine by going on to a waiting list.<\/p>\n
The shortage was because of issues with supply and demand because of “unprecedented levels” of need, according to Susan Carr, a farm vet at Severn Edge Practice in Bridgnorth. <\/p>\n
“There is about 20,000 doses on our waiting list but I can imagine other practices are going through the same,” she added.<\/p>\n
“We are importing a lot of stock at the minute from Europe; it is a UK-licensed vaccine but there just isn’t the stock in Europe.<\/p>\n
“It’s just taking time and obviously at the minute that’s not what people want to hear.”<\/p>\n
Carr has worked as a vet for 12 years and said, about this outbreak, she had never seen it so bad.<\/p>\n
“This is the worst notifiable disease outbreak I have had to deal with,” she added.<\/p>\n
“The only other [outbreak] we have had was bird flu a few years back.”<\/p>\n
“[It was] pretty bad around here and some of us did go and work alongside the ministry there with outbreaks but this has by far been sadly the the most the biggest one I’ve seen.”<\/p>\n
The spokesperson for Defra said they recognised how concerning bluetongue was for farmers and urged them and vets to place vaccine orders.<\/p>\n
“There is a wide range of support available to help farmers protect their livestock and we will continue to monitor the situation closely,” they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vets across the county have encouraged farmers to take up the vaccine by going on to a waiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}