This study states that In 2018, a strain of epizootic hemorrhagic sickness infection (EHDV), named YNDH/V079/2018, was confined from a sentinel calf in Mangshi County, Yunnan Province, China. Nucleotide sequencing and balance tests showed that the infection has a place with a novel serotype of EHDV that had not been accounted for already.
Epizootic hemorrhagic sickness infection (EHDV; family Reoviridae, variety Orbivirus) is sent between ruminants by Culicoides spp. gnawing midges. It is far and wide in tropical and subtropical locales and fundamentally taints white-followed deer and dairy cattle EHDV disease regularly causes passing in white-followed deer. Seven serotypes of (EHDV-1, – 2, – 4, – 5, – 6, – 7, and – 8) have been formally appointed; EHDV-3 (NIG1967/01 strain) has been joined into EHDV-1 (1,2). As of late, 2 novel EHDV strains confined from South Africa and Japan (4) were recommended as new serotype applicants. Albeit just Ibaraki infection (a strain of EHDV-2 from Japan) was recently known to cause a bluetongue-like ailment in steers (1), EHDV-1, EHDV-2, EHDV-6, and EHDV-7 have as of late been related with disease and passing in dairy cattle in Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, South Africa, North America, and Reunion Island, recommending that the circulation and the pathogenicity related with EHDV contamination are expanding. EHDVs having a place with serotypes 1, 5, 6, and 7, just as a nontyped serotype, have been disconnected from sentinel cows in southern China (H. Li et al., unpub. information).
Reference link- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/12/19-1301_article
