European Food Safety Authority publishes its second report on the Schmallenberg virus

摘要

On 2 April 2012 the European Food SafetyAuthority (EFSA) published its second report on theSchmallenberg virus (SBV), to date identified in ani-mals in eight European Union (EU) Member States (MS)[1]. In this report, EFSA compiled and analysed data onPCR or serologically confirmed cases in the MS andthese data show that the proportion of infected rumi-nants is low even if the figures need to be looked atwith caution. The report contains maps showing thedistribution of the animal cases.