Detection of Schmallenberg virus in France since 2012

IN a case report published in September 2016, Bayrou and colleagues described a Schmallenberg virus (SBV) genomic RNA-positive malformed calf born in May 2016 in Belgium as the first outbreak reported in three years. This did not come as a surprise, since SBV circulation has been reported in several EU countries with a low prevalence since 2013 after the large circulation of the virus in 2011 and 2012. In France SBV has …