No trace of Schmallenberg in Irish livestock
“There is no evidence that the disease is present in Ireland,” said Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety Shane McEntee. However, he revealed that there is no suitable routine test to prove it is not present, because no blood test exists for appropriate surveillance.
Tests carried out so far at the Department of Agriculture’s central veterinary research laboratory employed a polymerase chain reaction, essentially a DNA test.
