Potential strategies for control of bluetongue, a globally emerging, Culicoides-transmitted viral disease of ruminant livestock and wildlife

•Bluetongue is an emerging, non-zoonotic arboviral disease of livestock and wildlife.•The pathogenesis of bluetongue is similar to that of zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fevers.•Bluetongue is transmitted by a limited number of species of Culicoides biting midges.•Culicoides midges are opportunistic bloo...

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