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Hemorrhagic disease is also a general term that can refer to bluetongue virus, which has similar symptoms but can pose a serious threat to livestock like sheep.
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Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
Ever since the bluetongue virus struck nearly a year ago, German farmer Ortrun Humpert has cared for sick sheep to contain a crisis and feels increasingly abandoned by authorities.
—Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
In 2007, the bluetongue virus—a disease spread by midge bites—began to sweep through herds of sheep and cattle across Europe.
—Popular Science, 20 May 2020
It is caused by two different viruses: epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHD) and bluetongue virus.
—Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2019
Corrie Brown, a veterinary pathologist at the University of Georgia, says bluetongue is a prime example of how climate change introduces species to one another for the first time—expanding how diseases can spread in an unpredictable manner.
—Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
This may look like a popular children’s ball, but it’s the virus that causes bluetongue disease, a viral infection that has killed about 2 million cattle in Europe over the past two decades.
—Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
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Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
Ever since the bluetongue virus struck nearly a year ago, German farmer Ortrun Humpert has cared for sick sheep to contain a crisis and feels increasingly abandoned by authorities.
—Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
In 2007, the bluetongue virus—a disease spread by midge bites—began to sweep through herds of sheep and cattle across Europe.
—Popular Science, 20 May 2020
It is caused by two different viruses: epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHD) and bluetongue virus.
—Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2019
Corrie Brown, a veterinary pathologist at the University of Georgia, says bluetongue is a prime example of how climate change introduces species to one another for the first time—expanding how diseases can spread in an unpredictable manner.
—Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
This may look like a popular children’s ball, but it’s the virus that causes bluetongue disease, a viral infection that has killed about 2 million cattle in Europe over the past two decades.
—Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
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“Bluetongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bluetongue. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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bluetongue
noun
blue·tongue
ˈblü-ˌtəŋ 
: a noncontagious viral disease especially of sheep that is caused by an orbivirus (Orbivirus caerulinguae) transmitted by biting flies of the genus Culicoides and that is characterized by hyperemia and cyanosis and by swelling and sloughing of the mucous membranes especially about the mouth and tongue
called also soremuzzle
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