EHDV for the first time detected in Switzerland 🇨🇭. Both EHDV and BTV are Orbiviruses and are therefore related to each other. #blauwtong #bluetongue #orbivirus #EHDV linkedin.com/posts/ivi-inst…

I was interviewed by the renowned journal Science about the current Bluetongue virus outbreak in northwest Europe. You can find the article here: science.org/content/articl… #bluetongue #blauwtong WUR Bioveterinary

BTV-3 now also detected in Germany 🇩🇪 #blauwtong #bluetongue #blauzunge

All hypotheses of the possible introduction route of BTV-3 into the Netherlands remains speculative. Fact is that the virus is present and the Dutch indigenous midges are vector competent allowing for further transmission #Blauwtong #bluetongue

It makes me happy to hear that animals do recover as well from BTV infections! :)

The BTV-3/NET2023 sequences are finally online on NCBI! Accession numbers OR603992-OR604001 are allocated to each specific genomic segment. The VP2 can be found here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/OR6039… #blauwtong #bluetongue #serotype3 #BTV3NET2023

Today I will attend and give a talk about the current situation concerning BTV in the Netherlands for the European Reference laboratory for BTV & AHSV in Madrid. #bluetongue #blauwtong #BTV3

Bluetongue reached the UK! Now four countries have got BTV-3, namely The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom #bluetongue #blauwtong #BTV3

Next to Bluetongue, avian Influenza is now circulating as well in the Netherlands #bluetongue #avianInfluenza #itsgoingtobeabusyperiod

Today I will give a keynote lecture on the VEEC meeting at the Royal GD in Deventer about the serotyping of Bluetongue viruses. Looking forward! WUR Bioveterinary #blauwtong #serotyping #bluetongue #thepowerofsequencing

It feels a bit weird to see yourself back on national television! 📺 But happy to answer the questions that the amount of suspicions of BTV are declining, but the danger is not yet over. #blauwtong #bluetongue

For the Dutch journal 'Tijdschrift voor diergeneeskunde', I was interviewed in the section Hapklare brokken where I explained in five questions our recent paper about BTV-3 in the Netherlands. Thanks to Aliëtte Jonkers for the nice interview and article! #bluetongue #blauwtong

A great way to start the day with an radio interview. Unfortunately with bad news, the south-african vaccine against Bluetongue will not be approved in the Netherlands. Good news is that we will soon start to test a other vaccine candidate! #bluetongue #blauwtong WUR Bioveterinary

There is a vaccine against BTV-3 approved by the authorities in the Netherlands! 🥳

Finally online as early release; our paper about the start of the BTV-3 outbreak in the Netherlands in Emerging Infectious Diseases! tinyurl.com/EIDBTV3 Thanks to all co-authors for this nice collaboration between WUR Bioveterinary and Royal GD! #blauwtong #bluetongue #serotype3

Somebody looking for a Postdoc position in virology? Highly recommendable supervisor and lab included! 🥼🧫

Unfortunately bluetongue serotype 12 has been found in the Netherlands. 20 km to the south of the first farms where BTV-3 was observed the first time. We should find this introduction route and virus source to avoid new outbreaks of Orbiviruses! #btv #blauwtong #bluetongue

New preprint! In this manuscript we describe the first cases of BTV-12 in the Netherlands and the (surprising) potential geographical origin of the virus. This work has been a collaboration between WUR Bioveterinary and the Royal GD! tinyurl.com/BTV12NET #BTV #Bluetongue

An outbreak of FMDV in Germany... This is really not good!

New publication; "A case report of a cat infected with European bat lyssavirus type 1, the Netherlands, October 2024" in Eurosurveillance! We present the detection of EBLV-1 in a cat showing altered behaviour after an assumed contact with a bat. 🐈🦇 eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…