Clinical observations from a study comparing two different treatments for bluetongue in sheep
Ruurd Jorritsma, Hannes J. C. Bijkerk, Reynaldo Martina, Inge M. van Geijlswijk · 2026
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Ruurd Jorritsma, with three colleagues, reports a 2026 clinical study of two treatments for bluetongue in Dutch sheep. A new virus type, BTV-3, hit the Netherlands in September 2023 and made sheep gravely ill. Vets had few labelled drugs to choose from, so the team logged signs, survival, and whether an antihistamine add-on helped.
Of 83 sheep with clear acute signs, 41 got a pain and fever protocol alone, while 42 got the same care plus antihistamine shots over three days. Death took 57 percent of the flock overall. Heavy salivation marked sheep that died sooner. The antihistamine group lived a mean of 0.8 days against 2.5 days without it, so the add-on gave no gain. The authors advise against antihistamines here and urge early calls on when to stop treatment.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ruurd Jorritsma, Hannes J. C. Bijkerk, Reynaldo Martina, Inge M. van Geijlswijk |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22182 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |