As the livestock breeding season kicks into gear, here’s some top tips to help reduce the risk of Schmallenberg virus in your herd or flock. 1. Postpone tupping until after late autumn when ...

A key building block in the Schmallenberg virus could be targeted by anti-viral drugs, according to a new study. A key building block in the Schmallenberg virus could be targeted by anti-viral drugs, ...

Michael Goldie lost more than half his lambs in January through the Schmallenberg virus A livestock farmer has lost more than half his newborn lambs in one of the first Scottish cases of a deadly ...

Common midges are likely be spreading a disease which has caused thousands of lambs and calves to be born dead or horribly deformed, scientists have found. The impact of Schmallenberg virus will only ...

No cases of Schmallenberg virus have been reported in newborn calves and lambs this year, say government animal health officials. Foetal abnormalities in livestock confirmed as Schmallenberg virus ...

Scientists and farming leaders are urgently seeking ways of fighting a disease new to the UK threatening sheep flocks. Weeks after government vets confirmed the arrival in Britain of the deadly ...

Or at least, that's where it was first noticed a month before Christmas by scientists who examined a dead, new-born lamb with terrible deformities, on one of the 100 or so farms in the area. As is ...

Experts are keeping close watch on a virus spread by biting bugs that is causing congenital defects in cattle and small ruminants. As if we weren't concerned enough over safety issues with food and ...