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Louping Ill.
The histopathologic lesions observed in these goats were indistinguishable from those caused by
louping ill virus (10).
Genetic distances of GGE strains and those of western, eastern, and
louping ill subtypes are 16.3%, 20%, and 18.5%, respectively.
"Ticks also transmit
louping ill ( a viral disease of the nervous system ( and tick-borne fever, an illness characterised by a sudden high fever for 4-22 days.
A related flavivirus has been isolated in Norway from sheep; it was subsequently analyzed as
louping ill virus (LIV), not TBEV (3).
The only zoonotic arboviruses isolated from field material in the United Kingdom are the flavivirus
Louping ill virus (LIV) (4) and the bunyavirus Uukuniemi virus (5).
Although the diagnostic tests are not absolutely specific for TBE compared to the closely related
Louping ill virus, no cases of
Louping ill virus in livestock (Snorre Stuen, pers.