Bluetongue vaccination programme compulsary in Scotland

Scottish farmers will now be forced to vaccinate their sheep and cattle against the deadly bluetongue disease; the first compulsory vaccination programme in the UK. England and Whales have already done...

Bluetongue Disease hits UK

Under DevelopmentDon't Panic...Bluetongue or catarrhal fever is a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease of ruminants, and no known cases have been reported in Humans. (Sans Blue Man Group) Yet......" Two new...

Scotland's forgotten farmers fight for industry's future

"IT WAS a day like any other for Kelvin Pate, tending to cattle and sheep on his 350-acre farm in Scotland yesterday. But his future, and the survival of thousands of other farmers, depends upon the outcome of a crisis that has been ignored or forgotten by much of the...

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