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Overview of Blue tongue disease in animal

Abstract

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Bluetongue disease known as insect-borne disease or viral disease which is generally affects sheep, cattle, deer, goats and camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, guanaco and vicuña). Although sheep are most targeted by this disease, cattle are the main mammal reservoir of the virus and are critical in the disease cycle. The disease generally not spread by contact and is only transmitted by insect vectors (midges of the Culicoides species). The disease is causes by a virus belonging to the family Reoviridae. Bluetongue virus is a common disease in many countries. now endemic areas exist in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America and Asia as well as on some of islands such as Australia, the South Pacific and the Caribbean.

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