{"id":407144,"date":"2025-09-08T06:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:29:37","slug":"bluetongue-confirmed-in-sheep-in-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407144\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetongue confirmed in sheep in Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Farmers have been advised to remain vigilant for signs of the bluetongue virus in their animals after a sheep tested positive for the disease.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed a ram at a property in Cornwall had tested positive for the disease on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defra confirmed the ram had died but other animals on the premises would not be culled since bluetongue virus is mainly spread by biting midges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The notifiable disease does not pose a threat to human health or food safety but it can affect farmers by making animals sick, reducing milk yields and affecting breeding, Defra added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farmers have been advised to remain vigilant for signs of the bluetongue virus in their animals after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115167268942425155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}