A second meeting due to be held by the Department of Agriculture to discuss the first detected case of the bluetongue virus in the Republic has been rescheduled to tomorrow.
The impact that the case, identified in a herd of cattle in Co Wexford, will have on the Irish livestock export market is expected to become clearer over the coming days.
It is understood that the case was detected on a farm in the east of the county.
Sources have stressed the near impossibility for any farmer to fully prevent one of their livestock from becoming infected by the virus, as it is spread by midges.
The small fly-like insects bite an infected animal before passing it onto…