Bluetongue high-alert period coming to an end
A vet administers a dose of Bultavo 3 vaccine to a cow during a visit to a farm with some cows affected by the virus causing bluetongue disease, in Scheldewindeke, Oosterzele, Belgium. Picture: Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images
Colder weather has been welcomed by Irish farmers, who feared the arrival of bluetongue disease could burst the bubble of high cattle prices.
"The higher risk period for incursion of windblown bluetongue virus-infected midges from GB and mainland Europe is coming to an end, as temperatures steadily decrease", said vets at the Department of Agriculture.
