Re: Meet your meat. Blue Tongue virus a global threat. Time to go veggie?

Old Codger wrote:
Yet another virus affecting livestock, and the food you eat.

Just what is in out meat?

Where do you think these infected animals really end up? In your
burger, Sunday roast etc.



ANIMAL HEALTHDISEASE CARDS Bluetongue
Names Pathogen(s)

Preferred Name : Bluetongue virus

Disease/Parasitosis

Preferred Name : Bluetongue

Common Names :

Spanish: Lengua azul

French: Fievre catarrhale du mouton

Overview Bluetongue virus is an arbovirus (arthropod borne) that naturally
infects domestic and wild ruminants, camelids and some other
herbivores such as elephants. Bluetongue virus is transmitted by
several species of Culicoides (biting midges). Bluetongue is almost
exclusively a disease of sheep, although white-tailed deer, pronghorn
and desert bighorn sheep may suffer disease in North America. In
cattle and goats clinical disease is rare, and, when present, is much
milder than in sheep (Verwoerd and Erasmus, 1994).

Well for starters it doesn't appear to affect poultry. Plus we kill all our own meat.

--
Ginny - in West Australia

Plan ahead ... It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. -- Unknown
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