“…A notable exception to the usually asymptomatic EHDV infection in cattle has been Ibaraki virus (EHDV serotype 2 [EHDV-2]), which caused an extensive outbreak of disease in Japanese cattle in 1959 and continues to sporadically cause disease outbreaks among cattle in the Far East (56,57,58,59,60). More recently, strains of EHDV-2, 6 and 7 have been the apparent cause of a bluetongue-like disease syndrome of cattle in northern and southern Africa, North America, Reunion Island, and the Mediterranean Basin, including Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and western Turkey (4,6,8,39,40,49,55,61,62,63,64).…”