{"id":786252,"date":"2026-09-29T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786252\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:28:13","slug":"dorset-farmer-concerned-about-animal-fertility-after-bluetongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786252\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset farmer concerned about animal fertility after bluetongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The particular strain of bluetongue currently affecting livestock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg4jn587kxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serotype 3 (BTV-3)<\/a>, was first found in England in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It can often kill sheep, whilst in cattle it is less likely to be fatal, but can cause a drop in milk production, and lead to failed pregnancies and birth defects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Symptoms of the virus include fever, lameness, facial swelling, nasal discharge and mouth ulcers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the Department for Food and Rural Affairs said bluetongue posed   no threat to the public or food safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whilst vaccinations are having an impact it said, bluetongue restricted zones remain across the whole of England and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The particular strain of bluetongue currently affecting livestock, serotype 3 (BTV-3), was first found in England in 2023.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786252","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\/786252","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=786252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}