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Spatial Transmission Characteristics of the Bluetongue Virus Serotype 3 Epidemic in The Netherlands, 2023.
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- Culicoides species involved in the BTV-3 epidemic, the Netherlands, 2023-2024.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2026Article
- No Evidence of Direct Transmission of Emerging Bluetongue Virus Strains Between Israel and Europe Based on Genomic Analyses (2013-2023).Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Entomological surveillance for bluetongue virus in Poland: late-season activity and abundance ofJournal of veterinary research · 2025Article
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- Monitoring of Schmallenberg virus, bluetongue virus and epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus in biting midges in Germany 2019-2023.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Experimental BTV-3 and BTV-8 infection of Culicoides sonorensis biting midges.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Monoclonal antibody and B-cell epitope mapping of the VP7 protein in bluetongue virus.Virology journal · 2025Article
- First Detection of Bluetongue Virus Type 3 in Poland in 2024-A Case Study in European Bison (Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Searching for potential Culicoides vectors of four orbiviruses in Yunnan Province, China.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Clinical disease in British sheep infected with an emerging strain of bluetongue virus serotype 3.The Veterinary record · 2025Article
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Abstract
A devastating bluetongue (BT) epidemic caused by bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3) has spread throughout most of the Netherlands within two months since the first infection was officially confirmed in the beginning of September 2023. The epidemic comes with unusually strong suffering of infected cattle through severe lameness, often resulting in mortality or euthanisation for welfare reasons. In total, tens of thousands of sheep have died or had to be euthanised. By October 2023, more than 2200 locations with ruminant livestock were officially identified to be infected with BTV-3, and additionally, ruminants from 1300 locations were showing BTV-associated clinical symptoms (but not laboratory-confirmed BT). Here, we report on the spatial spread and dynamics of this BT epidemic. More specifically, we characterized the distance-dependent intensity of the between-holding transmission by estimating the spatial transmission kernel and by comparing it to transmission kernels estimated earlier for BTV-8 transmission in Northwestern Europe in 2006 and 2007. The 2023 BTV-3 kernel parameters are in line with those of the transmission kernel estimated previously for the between-holding spread of BTV-8 in Europe in 2007. The 2023 BTV-3 transmission kernel has a long-distance spatial range (across tens of kilometres), evidencing that in addition to short-distance dispersal of infected midges, other transmission routes such as livestock transports probably played an important role.
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