Abortions in cattle in Flanders, Netherlands linked to the Schmallenberg virus

Animal Health Care Flanders has linked more abortions in cattle to an infection with the Schmallenberg virus in the first half of 2021. That is what the organization says is the Veescoop ruminants that the organization recently published. In addition to pathological examinations and the obligatory brucellosis examinations, various examinations are carried out on fetuses and afterbirths that Animal Health Care Vlaanderen receives within the framework of the abortion protocol, in order to determine the cause of the abortion. Compared to the same period in 2020, significantly more PCR-positive cases for Schmallenberg virus were found in the abortion cases ...