Bluetongue

Bluetongue affects primarily sheep and is one of the most economically important diseases of domesticated livestock.

Part of "Biology of Animal Infections Series", this book discusses bluetongue one of the diseases of domesticated livestock. It describes various developments in epidemiological modeling, molecular epidemiology and vaccine development, as well as explaining the global epidemiology of the disease.The third volume in the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) Biology of Animal Infections Series, Bluetongue discusses one of the most economically important diseases of domesticated livestock. Affecting primarily sheep particularly the improved mutton and wool breeds, it is now endemic in Africa, India, the Middle and Far East, Australia and the Americas, and over the last six years has caused a series of outbreaks throughout the Mediterranean region and central Europe. Bluetongue represent a paradigm not only for the other orbiviruses (such as African horse sickness virus, which shares the same vector species) but also for other insect transmitted diseases, including those of humans.