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Bird flu at poultry farms, updates 2024/2025
- On this page, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) presents an overview of highly pathogenic bird flu infections on Dutch poultry farms from... -
MARAN 2024: Decline in antibiotic resistance in animals is levelling off
- Antibiotic usage in Dutch livestock farming has fallen sharply since 2009. The sharp decline in antibiotic usage started levelling of last year, as... -
Bluetongue in ruminants, updates 2024
- This year's first case of bluetongue in the Netherlands was confirmed on 14 June 2024. Since the confirmation of bluetongue serotype 3 in Ommeren,... -
WBVR study shows European Bat Lyssavirus type 1 in Dutch cat
- An infection with European Bat Lyssavirus type 1 (EBLV-1, lyssavirus Hamburg) has been demonstrated in a Dutch cat. The animal suddenly changed its... -
WBVR bioengineers Romy Dresken and Sophie van Oort win award for alternatives to animal testing
- Romy Dresken and Sophie van Oort were awarded at the Biotechnical Days in Den Bosch for their contribution to developing alternatives to animal... -
Avian Chlamydia abortus variant leads to respiratory infections in humans
- Research shows that avian Chlamydia abortus can cause pneumonia in humans. An unknown phenomena until now. Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR,... -
Structural changes in FMD virion particle 12S explain loss of immunogenicity
- Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virions (146S) readily dissociates into stable pentamers (12S). Research from Haozhou Li of Wageningen University &... -
New bluetongue virus serotype, BTV-12, identified in the Netherlands
- A new variant of the bluetongue virus has been identified in a sheep in Kockengen. It was identified as bluetongue serotype BTV-12, according to... -
WUR: alertness for EHDV needed
- Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease Virus (EHDV) is a vector-borne animal disease. The disease has been observed regularly in southern Europe since 2022... -
WUR-expert Piet van Rijn advices: ‘Give sheep second bluetongue vaccination’
- The bluetongue virus serotype 3 is spreading further throughout Europe in 2024. The virus has now been identified in the Netherlands, Germany and...