{"id":302457,"date":"2026-01-25T04:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302457\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:53:13","slug":"farm-organisations-urge-maximum-vigilance-in-response-to-first-bluetongue-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302457\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm organisations urge \u2018maximum vigilance\u2019 in response to first bluetongue case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IFA president Francie Gorman.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4d60d171-faac-4842-850a-6b2f5da1a3cf.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)\">IFA president Francie Gorman.<\/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)\">Farm organisations have called for a \u201cwhole\u2011of\u2011sector response\u201d and maximum vigilance after the first case of bluetongue was confirmed in a Co Wexford herd, prompting immediate action across the livestock industry.<\/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)\">The Department of Agriculture is continuing detailed investigations today after a bovine tested positive for bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV3) during routine surveillance, the first time the disease has been detected in the Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IFA president Francie Gorman. Farm organisations have called for a \u201cwhole\u2011of\u2011sector response\u201d and maximum vigilance after the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,61225,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-302457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciaran-moran","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115953952776902326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302457","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=302457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}