On Thursday, the Schmallenberg virus had been detected for the first time in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Meanwhile, the Schmallenberg virus is rampant in six provinces. Cattle, goats and sheep are infected with the deadly virus. The dams of the affected lambs and calves had been infected probably last summer and fall. "The infection is maintained in the population of mosquitoes and passed on," said Osterrieder. This was evident from the experience with other Orthobunyaviren, which include the Schmallenberg virus.
Schmallenberg vaccine virus
The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI) will accelerate the search for a vaccine against the virus Schmallenberg. For the first time the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, provides all of its findings specialized institutes and pharmaceutical companies are available. "We have deliberately refrained from patents on discoveries to our Schmallenberg virus to register," said the FLI-President, Thomas Mettenleiter on Thursday, the news agency dpa. He lowered expectations, but that could have been a few months, a vaccine is available
On February 26 the past. Website of the British Daily Mail reported that British lamb and beef. Taken thousands of casualties. The deadly virus outbreak. I twisted his neck twisted, making it a dreaded might spread to people.
According to the report. Virus strain is a deadly virus, visit the City Hall. (Schmallenberg) to farm sheep and cattle farm spread over 74 farms throughout England over a month ago. As a result, thousands of sheep and cattle. The newborn lambs and cows. I scare you to death with a twisted leg twisted head and neck unnaturally twisted. Of course. Sheep and cattle infected with the virus. No one survived to make it.
Of this phenomenon. The experts will have to find a way to immediately. I dreaded that this species may spread the virus to people. And died in the same manner as sheep and cattle are.
By the National Farmers Union of England. Out warning. Strain of virus may lead to disastrous British agriculture. Farmers are very careful. The strain of virus may be killing the sheep farm. It is unlikely that it could spread to people.
Most of the food safety regulatory agencies of Britain. Revealed that Although the virus is spread during the past month. But people should not fear to eat lamb. Because this virus is no impact on the consumption of lamb in any way. It is expected that the virus can spread to humans through repeated. Since there are no reports of people infected with this virus, even a single lamb.
English is the official estimate. Each year, lambs born in England about 16 million, and the spread of deadly virus. May affect the export of sheep to 20% ever.
During recent years, several introductions of arboviruses into Europe have been reported. One of them, namely BTV-8, involved large parts of western Europe, starting (why?!) in the same geographic realm as the current Schmallenberg virus. The experience gathered during the handling of BTV-8 will help the European animal-health authorities in the planning and early performance of epidemiological investigations and control schemes if and when the role of this virus as an animal pathogen is finally confirmed. In case confirmed, it will be interesting to note whether Germany and the Netherlands regard it as an emerging disease. In case affirmative, official notification is due.
Vaccination against Akabane disease has been applied in several counties (eg Japan and Australia). Akabane disease is not included in OIE's list; no official data on its situation in OIE member states are available.
One of the outcomes of the BTV-8 episode was the conclusion that culicoides-borne diseases, which are not likely to be transmitted directly between mammals, are not to be controlled by a stamping-out policy but rather by vaccination combined with zoning. The details of any control schemes will also require an answer to a crucial question: Is the Schmallenberg virus zoonotic?
The cited risk assessment provides a plausible roadmap to tackle this question.
Some subscribers have mentioned the absence of another orthobunyavirus, Cache valley virus (CCV), in the recent Dutch and German reports/discussions. CCV is known as the causative agent of congenital malformations in ruminants in the American continent and, reportedly, has infected humans in Argentina (2004-5). This mosquito-borne virus has probably been excluded from the report's considerations due to the fact that it is not included in the relevant Simbu group.
