PRO/AH> Bluetongue – USA (02): (WA) cervid

Bluetongue — United States
Washington State University has confirmed bluetongue virus this fall [2015] in 42 animals, most of them white-tailed deer, submitted to its animal disease diagnostic laboratory from eastern Washington and Idaho.
None of the animals were from the Mid-Columbia, but the [Washington] state Department of Fish and Wildlife has received reports of suspected bluetongue disease killing deer in Walla Walla and Columbia counties.
Other animals found to have the disease include cows, domestic sheep,