Cooperatives Agro-alimentary and the MARM study the effects of the virus 'Schmallenberg'
23 January 2012
The alarm jumped during the past summer-autumn, when they observed the first cases of said illness, although it did not identify the virus, until the month of November. The Schmallenberg is an Orthobunyavirus, included in a group of virus –like the Akabane and the Aino– that circulate in Asia and Oceania.
Between the livestock affected observes a symptomatology inespecífica, like diarrhoea and decrease of the production, basically, that affects to the animals of diverse ways. In copies ovinos and goat milking roomss has observed that the infection during the gestation causes abortions and fetal malformations. In the case of the bobinos, still desconoce if it will produce a similar effect, since this still has not completed . No descarta, that the repercussion of this pathology was similar to the Blue Tongue, by what the livestock ovino was the most defenceless to said illness.
The contagion by 'Schmallenberg' takes place as a result of the action of a mosquito (Culicoides). Later, the infection produces a viremia very short, by what his detection is complicated. In the actuality, carry out methods to detect antibodies.
Even so, fits to have clear that does not treat of a zoonosis. This group of virus is the manager of an effective immune answer, that contributes to protect to the animal during all his life. This would make possible the development of effective vaccines that hinder the apparition of the illness and his effects.
• System of surveillance coordinated with the Autonomous Communities: The veterinary clinical will have to inform of the cases of fetal malformations to the competent authority of the CC.AA. And this to the Ministry.
• Will request the protocols to the German authorities to set up the diagnostic in the National Laboratory of Reference.
• Will request the virus to be able to develop a vaccine.
Because of the nonexistence of the mosquitos in these moments expects that the illness hiberne to reappear later with the arrival of the mosquitos in the zones affected in the actuality.
