{"id":752479,"date":"2026-08-28T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:44:17","slug":"wiltshire-bluetongue-cases-recorded-amid-shortage-of-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752479\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire bluetongue cases recorded amid shortage of vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire has recorded two cases of bluetongue, a virus which can be deadly in livestock, amid reports of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20dl9qxjd2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vaccine shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cases of the insect-borne virus, which affects sheep and cattle as well as other animals, have risen to 630 across England, Wales and Scotland since the outbreak began in July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Melanie McPherson from Avon Farm Vets in Chippenham said they were &#8220;struggling to get hold of vaccines&#8221; and had not had a delivery for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it was &#8220;working with vaccine manufacturers&#8221; to increase supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wiltshire has recorded two cases of bluetongue, a virus which can be deadly in livestock, amid reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752479","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\/752479","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=752479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}