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Farmers await livestock vaccine

Culicoides imicola midge
The vaccine stocks are now available to protect livestock

Farmers in parts of Yorkshire will soon be able to vaccinate stock against the Bluetongue virus after government vets extended the protection zone.

Cattle, sheep, goats and deer can be infected, but the insect-borne virus is not thought to pose a risk to humans.

From Monday, 7 July, farmers in East and South Yorkshire will be brought into the protection zone.

The move comes after millions of doses of the vaccine were delivered by the manufacturers.

Experts from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said livestock keepers in the newly-defined area would be able to administer the vaccine - allowing stock to be moved out of the zone if they then have been vaccinated, are naturally immune or being moved for slaughter.

Vaccinated animals will also be allowed to move between designated protection zones.

Bluetongue is transmitted by the Culicoides imicola midge.

The new area includes the whole of East Yorkshire and the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.



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