Livestock disease worries haunt farmers across Europe
A vet administers a dose of Bultavo 3 vaccine to a cow during a visit of a veterinary to a farm with some cows touched by the virus causing bluetongue disease.
Following a bluetongue outbreak in Co Down, vigilance is critical to prevent the virus becoming established in livestock and midges on the island of Ireland, and to protect the Republic of Ireland’s bluetongue disease free status.
Losing that status could endanger Ireland's valuable live exports, now more lucrative than ever against a background of a global meat scarcity.
