The Guipúzcoa Provincial Council has detected an active outbreak of bluetongue disease on a livestock farm in Arrasate, where
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The Guipúzcoa Provincial Council has detected an active outbreak of bluetongue disease in a livestock farm in Arrasate, where an affected bovine has been discovered. According to provincial sources, health authorities have already sent a sample to the corresponding laboratory for serotyping, while the affected animal has begun treatment and has been isolated from the rest preventively. This outbreak joins those already declared in Álava, Vizcaya, Burgos, and Navarra, where the presence of serotype 8 has been detected, sources have specified. Bluetongue is a viral disease that primarily affects ovine, bovine, and caprine animals infected by bites from culicoides mosquitoes. The symptoms of this pathology, which is not transmitted to humans either by animal contact or meat consumption, include fever, hemorrhages and ulceration in the buconasal tissue, excessive salivary secretion, abundant diarrhea, vomiting, pneumonia, and weakness. In the case of Guipúzcoa, a large part of the ...