date:Oct 13, 2012
Scottish livestock producers in the Borders and in Dumfries and Galloway have been put on high alert after the highly infectious Schmallenberg virus (SBV) was confirmed in the north of England.
The positive samples were found on farms in North Yorkshire and Northumberland and they represent the furthest north incidences of the disease, which appeared last year in the south of England.
SBV, identified as a new virus on German and Dutch farms in 2010, is spread by midges and moved throughout par