bluetongue virus | BTV [Abbr.]

Bluetongue virus 2

Bluetongue virus 4

Bluetongue virus

bluetongue [ BT | blue tongue | sore muzzle | pseudo foot-and-mouth disease | muzzle disease ]

bluetongue | ovine catarrhal fever | ovine orbivirus infection | BT [Abbr.]

blue tongue

Vaccination is extensively carried out and financed by the Union in many Member States at present, both for bluetongue and for rabies, but I must make it clear regarding foot-and-mouth disease, Mr Matsakis, that we are not in favour of preventive vaccination, though in emergency cases we will of course vaccinate.

So we do need to look at these particular issues: in bluetongue, in avian influenza, in foot-and-mouth diseases, we do need stringent border controls and appropriate vaccination programmes.

All prevention, testing, vaccination and other measures which may allow new outbreaks of animal diseases to be avoided are important in terms of preventing serious damage such as that already suffered due to BSE, foot-and-mouth disease, bluetongue virus and other diseases, because it is food safety and also public health that are at stake.

28. Is disappointed that in spite of the major needs for appropriations for development of a dead vaccine for the Blue Tongue virus (BTV), Council refused to approve this initiative by Parliament in its second reading; welcomes however the Commission's suggestion, expressed in the letter of executability, to incorporate the development of a new vaccine for blue tongue in the Research budget under the IPA projects; emphasises that preference should be given to the development of a multivalent vaccine, which is effective against the different types of the ...[+++] virus;