Bluetongue virus reaches Sweden, Norway amid a surge of outbreaks
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After spreading rapidly across central Europe over the last few months, several cases of bluetongue virus (BTV) have been reported in Sweden and Norway, the first instances that far north in over a decade.
  • activistPnk@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    BTV can cause abortion, in animals? WTF? I guess they must mean miscarriages. AFAIK non-human animals don’t do abortions.

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion. Well, not entirely.

      Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, spontaneous abortion is the termination by the body of the mother.

      The exception is cases where the fetus dies and is then ejected, iirc that’s considered a miscarriage but not always an spontaneous abortion.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion

      What we colloquially call abortions are technically induced abortions.