SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS MAY SURVIVE THE WINTER AND HIT LIVESTOCK IN 2013 – EFSA
June 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCHMALLENBERG virus (SBV) may survive this coming winter and infect livestock to the south and east of its current core outbreak areas in Germany, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. Its experts say it is possible the virus will die off - but if not, EFSA has predicted it is most likely to re-emerge between mid-April and the end of May and "that any outbreak of SBV is likely to be of a similar size to the one that occurred in 2011". The agency warned in a detailed assessment that regions previously unaffected ...
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