{"id":239773,"date":"2025-12-18T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/239773\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:48:26","slug":"republic-of-ireland-may-already-have-bluetongue-ni-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/239773\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland may already have bluetongue, NI officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Northern Ireland is in the containment phase and hopes the disease doesn\u2019t spread quickly across the country\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Department officials in Northern Ireland say no country affected by the disease has managed to eradicate it.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c1ffdbd3-cc48-4a65-80cd-c97dac9494f4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Department officials in Northern Ireland say no country affected by the disease has managed to eradicate it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bluetongue may already be present in the Republic of Ireland, but has not yet been detected, DAERA Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer David Kyle has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His comments come as further suspected bluetongue cases have been identified on a fourth farm in Co Down. Northern Ireland\u2019s bluetongue-free status was suspended at the end of November following the detection of BTV-3 through surveillance testing in factories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland is in the containment phase and hopes the disease doesn\u2019t spread quickly across the country Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,30655,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-239773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catherina-cunnane","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115742304641943970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}