Exceptional Bluetongue Epidemic Caused by Co-Circulation of Several Serotypes in Spain in 2024
Rubén Villalba·Montserrat Agüero·Laura Jiménez-Guerrero·Marta Valero-Lorenzo·Marı́a José Ruano·Dolores Buitrago·Elena García-Villacieros·Cristina Tena‐Tomás·María Jesús Cano-Benito·Ana López-Herranz·Jorge Morales·Isabel María Guijarro-Torvisco·Germán Cáceres-Garrido·J.A. Bouzada·Bernabé Diéguez-Roda
Bluetongue (BT) is an infectious, non-contagious, arthropod-borne viral disease of ruminants, and has a severe impact on livestock. It is caused by Bluetongue virus (BTV), a double-stranded (ds) RNA virus with a segmented genome (10 segments), belonging to the Seoreoviridae family, Orbivirus genus. Over the last 25 years, Europe has suffered multiple incursions of different BTV serotypes with serious consequences, which have mainly been controlled thanks to vaccination. In the case of Spain, fro