Exempel på bluetongue

• Under current rules, vaccination is only allowed in areas that are subject to certain restrictions because of the presence of bluetongue disease.

• The old directive on measures to combat bluetongue from 2000 needs to be improved and updated.

• In addition, the current outbreak of bluetongue and consequent restrictions imposed on the movement and marketing of animals has created additional socio-economic difficulties.

• Under the fifth and sixth framework programmes, two specific projects were devoted to the development of a safe, efficacious bluetongue virus vaccination strategy.

• It can also be disastrous not to protect your animals from disease, especially one as damaging and virulent as bluetongue.

• We must not lose sight of the fact that, although the bluetongue situation has improved greatly in recent years, the disease has not been eradicated.

• It reassures farmers who are concerned by the deadly disease and the existing vaccination as the bluetongue season approaches with the warmer weather.

• With a preventive vaccination campaign, for example, under current legislation, a restriction zone must be maintained, even if no incidence of bluetongue has been recorded.

• Today's amendment to the directive as regards vaccination against bluetongue is a practical realisation of this very principle.

• I voted in favour of this report, because bluetongue is a disease affecting ruminants (such as cattle, sheep and goats).

• The rules on vaccination that applied at that time need to be adapted to technological developments in order to combat bluetongue more effectively and reduce the burden on farmers.

• The new law ushers in the use of a new bluetongue vaccine for the first time, which takes advantage of developments in science since the previous rules came into force.

• So we do need to look at these particular issues: in bluetongue, in avian influenza, in foot-and-mouth diseases, we do need stringent border controls and appropriate vaccination programmes.

• Bluetongue is a disease affecting ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats.

• Bluetongue is a horrible animal epidemic affecting ruminants that has caused great damage throughout the livestock sector.