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Maladie hémorragique épizootique (MHE) : point de situation sur une maladie émergente

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23 communes de Côte-d'Or et quatre de Saône-et-Loire ont été désignées comme zones réglementées temporaires suite à la confirmation de deux cas de maladie hémorragique épizootique (MHE) dans des exploitations bovines en Suisse.

  Suite à des cas de maladie hémorragique épizootique (MHE), des zones réglementées en Côte-d'Or et Haute-Saône

Publié le 18/10/2023 à 10h29

Écrit par Mélanie Philips

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  Maladie hémorragique épizootique (MHE) : point de situation sur une maladie émergente | Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Souveraineté alimentaire https://agriculture.gouv.fr/mhe-la-maladie-hemorragique-epizootique

  Les premiers foyers de maladie hémorragique épizootique (MHE) ont été déclarés en France en septembre 2023 dans des élevages de bovins du sud-ouest. Cette maladie infectieuse due à un virus est transmise exclusivement par des moucherons du genre Culicoïdes, les mêmes que ceux de la fièvre catarrhale ovine (FCO). La détection de foyers de MHE entraîne des mesures de lutte et de prévention spécifiques dans un rayon de 150 km autour des foyers. Cette zone réglementée est visualisable ci-dessous (carte). La liste des communes qui y sont intégrées est également téléchargeable.

  À la date du 12 octobre, 453 foyers de maladie hémorragique épizootique (MHE) ont été recensés en France dans des élevages. Ces foyers concernent les départements suivants : Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Landes, Ariège.

  Dans les élevages infectés, le nombre d’animaux atteint est inférieur à 3%. La mortalité constatée reste par ailleurs très faible (inférieure à 0,1%). Une étude est engagée dans des élevages infectés pour consolider ces données. Les soins mis en œuvre permettent dans la quasi-totalité des cas une guérison des animaux malades en quelques jours.

  En Europe, la Suisse a enregistré durant la semaine du 9 octobre son premier foyer de MHE à proximité de Berne. La zone règlementée de 150 km établie autour de ce foyer s’étend au-delà des frontières de la Suisse et touche plusieurs départements français (voir la carte et la liste des communes concernées ci-dessous).

  Pour en savoir plus

  "La MHE est une maladie à virus transmise exclusivement par des moucherons (Culicoïdes), qui affecte les ruminants sauvages et domestiques : les bovins et dans une moindre mesure les ovins et caprins. Les cas cliniques de la maladie se manifestent par l’hyperthermie (fièvre), des difficultés respiratoires, des œdèmes de la face et de l’encolure, de l’hypersalivation, des boiteries. Les ovins et caprins sont réceptifs au virus mais ne présentent pas de signes cliniques. Les symptômes sont similaires à ceux de la fièvre catarrhale ovine (FCO). Pour rappel, la MHE, comme la FCO, n’est pas transmissible à l’homme."

  Maladie hémorragique épizootique : 4 communes du département sont classées en zone réglementée (ZR) - Octobre - 2023 - Salle de presse - Actualités - Les services de l'État de la Saône-et-Loire https://www.saone-et-loire.gouv.fr/Actualites/Salle-de-presse/2023/Octobre/Maladie-hemorragique-epizootique-4-communes-du-departement-sont-classees-en-zone-reglementee-ZR

  [Image] Cartographie de la zone réglementée au titre de la MHE à partir des foyers du sud-ouest (à la date du 12 octobre 2023)

  Voir aussi : Cartographie de la zone réglementée à partir du foyer suisse (à la date du 12 octobre 2023) https://agriculture.gouv.fr/mhe-la-maladie-hemorragique-epizootique

  Bernadette Cassel's insight:

  'MHE Maladie hémorragique épizootique' in EntomoNews https://www.scoop.it/topic/entomonews/?&tag=MHE+Maladie+h%C3%A9morragique+%C3%A9pizootique

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Col de Pailhères (Mijanès) - Cycling Inspiration & Education

The Col Collective                           

Located in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-west France, the Col de Pailhères joins the village of Mijanès in the east to the spa town of Ax-Les-Thermes in the west. Despite being just one of two road passes to top 2,000m in the French Pyrenées (the other being the legendary Col du Tourmalet at 2,115m) the Pailhères was a relative late comer to the world of professional cycling, appearing for the first time in the Tour de France in 2003. A popular climb for cyclo tourists crossing the mountains from coast to coast the Pailhères has a certain serenity that only increases the higher you go and, although it may only be 10.4km from Mijanès, with switchback upon switchback and views that’ll leave you in complete awe it’s a far grander climb than it may otherwise have you believe. 

Start: Mijanès

Length: 10.4km

Summit: 2,001m

Elevation gain: 871m

Average gradient: 8.4%

Max gradient: 11.5%

Ridden in October

http://thecolcollective.com

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Departmental football rewards its volunteers

Departmental football rewards its volunteers

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Like every season for more than 20 years now, volunteers from each department of France are highlighted and offered a weekend in Paris, during the final of the Coupe de France.

We have not failed in the tradition and it is therefore five volunteers from Ariège clubs who will make the trip, on Saturday April 25, in Paris. In the…

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By Jorge Franganillo

Tarascon-sur-Ariège, Ariège department, France

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Sentenac. Phillipe. 36 ans, né à Soulan (Ariège). Menuisier. Anarchiste. 7/3/94. by Alphonse Bertillon via The Met's Photography Department

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/307007

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Other: FrancePyrenees.VolFieldAssist.LizardBehaviour.Apr-Jun

We at the Ethology Lab of The University of Valencia (Spain) are looking for a voluntary field research assistant to get involved with our research on the functional significance of colour polymorphism in the common wall lizard *Podarcis muralis.* We are preparing an experiment to conduct in April-June 2018 at the Metatron experimental platform, associated to the Station d’Ecologie Théoretique et Expérimentale UMR5321 (http://bit.ly/1MIlFV2), in the french department of Ariège (Midi-Pyrenees). Tasks will consist mainly on recording the behaviour of lizards held in semi-natural conditions within experimental enclosures. Accommodation and food are provided. The work will span from April 15th to June 30th. We will review applications as they arrive. Please contact by email for further information and apply as sooner as possible (at latest April 1st). Dr Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza, Post-doc researcher at CIBIO-InBIO (University of Porto). e-mail: guillem.perez-lanuza@uv.es Msc Javier Abalos, PhD candidate at University of Valencia, e-mail: jal4@uv.es Javier Ábalos Álvarez via Gmail

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It’s Easter weekend.  For my continuing re-blogging festival, an Easter themed post seems in order.  Let’s try this one from 2010…..

April 2010

Omelette de Pâques

Come to the Ariège on Easter Monday, and you won’t be too far from a community omelette. Communes and clubs all over the department seek out their biggest frying pan, get hold of dozens of eggs, sugar and rum, to make this sweet confection to round off, with any luck, the first barbecue of the season. Why? Nobody in our walking group could tell me, and Google wasn’t much help, but it does seem to be an ancient tradition dating back to….ooh, 1973 at least.

Anyway, the Rando del’Aubo have made this an annual event for some years now. For the last couple, it’s been rainy and cold. Not this year though. Down at the bottom of the page, you’ll find a few pictures of our walk between La Pène, an Audois hamlet on a delightful small lake, and Monthaut, which is a hill….higher up. It was a great way to work up an appetite.

Because the weather was warm, sunny and spring-like, we relaxed at the lakeside after our walk, chatting and enjoying those woodsmokey smells of a barbecue coming to life. Apéros first: Muscat, suze, pernod, whisky…all the usual French tipples, with nibbles to stem our hunger. Then grilled pork, grilled Toulouse sausage, bread (and wine of course), Coulommiers cheese, vanilla or chocolate pudding. And then we still had to find room for the all-important omelette.

Since the beginning of time, it’s been Marie-Therèse’s ‘job’ (good French word, that) to make the omelette, and of course it all ended in noisy recriminations because there were too many cooks all muscling in, breaking eggs, beating eggs, heating the pan, greasing the pan, measuring the rum. Half the raw egg mixture tipped out onto the grass, and Etienne and Danielle dashed off to every farm they could find to buy another….. 4 dozen.

Finally, it was done. Really, this omelette is scrambled egg with lots of sugar chucked in at the end, and flambéed with rum. Once a year is quite enough.

It wasn’t the end of the party though. Oh no. We couldn’t go before downing glasses of Blanquette de Limoux, an Alpine eau-de-vie, then cups of coffee (with madeleines, in case we were still hungry). And as a final touch, Easter eggs.

We came away suntanned and rather full, at the end of an Easter Monday that was one of the first really hot and sunny days of the year. A taste of things to come?

  My contribution to today’s Ragtag Challenge: egg.

And a Malcolm update:  He’s out of hospital now with lots of medication and check-up appointments.  Looking good!

Omelette de Pâques revisited It's Easter weekend.  For my continuing re-blogging festival, an Easter themed post seems in order.  Let's try this one from 2010.....

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Foix. Vue générale

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These are the winning photos from the 2018 Nikon Small World competition, prepare to be amazed

Nikon Small World competition was founded in 1974 to recognize excellence in photography through the microscope. The results of the 44th competition have just been announced, and they will take your breath away.

This year, the contest had nearly 2,500 entries from scientists and artists in 89 countries. The judges have chosen the top 20 images, and we’re bringing you the winning photos here on DIYP.

The subjects of the photos vary a lot, which makes the selection even more interesting. In these photos, you can see “everyday stuff” such as human tears, but there are also images of phenomena such as cell division. Still, all these photos have something in common: they show an extreme close-up of their subjects and give us a unique view even on the things we thought we knew.

The judges evaluated the photos on originality, informational content, technical proficiency, and visual impact. First place was awarded to Emirati photographer Yousef Al Habshi, who sees the eyes as the windows to stunning insect artwork and research. The 2018 winning image captures part of the compound eyes and surrounding greenish scales of an Asian Red Palm Weevil. This type of Metapocyrtus subquadrulifer beetle is typically less than 11 mm (0.43 in) in size and is found in the Philippines.

1st Place Yousef Al Habshi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Eye of a Metapocyrtus subquadrulifer beetle Reflected Light 20x (objective lens magnification)

Al Habshi captured the image using a reflected light technique and stacking of hundreds of images: he made a compilation of more than 128 micrographs. According to Al Habshi, “the main challenge was to show the black body against the black background without overexposing the skin and scales.” He was able to strike the perfect balance by controlling the background distance from the subject and using deft lighting and sample positioning.

Second place was awarded to Rogelio Moreno for his colorful photo of a Fern sorus, a clustered structure that produces and contains spores. As for the third place, it was awarded to Saulius Gugis for his adorable spittlebug photo, captured using focus-stacking.

2nd Place Rogelio Moreno Panama, Panama Fern sorus (structures producing and containing spores) Autofluorescence 10x (objective lens magnification)

3rd Place Saulius Gugis Naperville, Illinois, USA Spittlebug nymph in its bubble house Focus Stacking 5x (objective lens magnification)

In addition to the top three winners, the Nikon Small World contest has recognized 92 more images from all over the world. We bring you the rest of the top 20 photos below, and you can view the entire gallery, along with Images of Distinction, on the contest’s website. Also, check out the last year’s winners here.

If you’d like to submit the photos of your own, you can do it via this link. The contest is open not only to professionals but to hobbyist photographers as well. And now, let these winning images inspire you to experiment with microphotography yourself.

4th Place Can Tunçer İzmir, Turkey Peacock feather section Focus Stacking 5x (objective lens magnification)

5th Place Dr. Tessa Montague Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Parasteatoda tepidariorum (spider embryo) stained for embryo surface (pink), nuclei (blue) and microtubules (green) Confocal 20x (objective lens magnification)

6th Place Hanen Khabou Vision Institute, Department of Therapeutics Paris, France Primate foveola (central region of the retina) Fluorescence 40x (objective lens magnification)

7th Place Norm Barker Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pathology & Art as Applied to Medicine Baltimore, Maryland, USA Human tear drop Darkfield 5x (objective lens magnification)

8th Place Pia Scanlon Government of Western Australia, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development South Perth, Western Australia, Australia Portrait of Sternochetus mangiferae (mango seed weevil) Stereomicroscopy, Image Stacking 1x (objective lens magnification)

9th Place Dr. Haris Antonopoulos Athens, Greece Security hologram Darkfield Epi-illumination 10x (objective lens magnification)

10th Place Dr. Csaba Pintér University of Pannonia, Georgikon Faculty, Department of Plant Protection Keszthely, Hungary Stalks with pollen grains Focus Stacking 3x (objective lens magnification)

12th Place Luciano Andres Richino Punto NEF Photography Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina Urania ripheus (butterfly) wing scales Image Stacking 20x (objective lens magnification)

13th Place Charles Krebs Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USA Balanus glandula (acorn barnacle) Autofluorescence 5x (objective lens magnification)

14th Place Andrew Moore & Dr. Erika Holzbaur University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physiology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA African green monkey cell (COS-7) stained for actin and microtubules Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Microscopy 100x (objective lens magnification)

15th Place Antoine Franck CIRAD – Agricultural Research for Development Saint Pierre, Réunion, Reunion Island Varroa destructor (mite) on the back of Apis mellifera (honeybee) Focus Stacking 1x (objective lens magnification)

16th Place Dr. Amanda D. Phillips Yzaguirre Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, California, USA Mouse oviduct vasculature Confocal 10x (objective lens magnification)

17th Place Caleb Dawson The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Department of Stem Cells and Cancer Melbourne, Australia Breast tissue in lactation: Milk filled spheres (red) surrounded by tiny muscle cells that squeeze out milk (yellow) and immune cells that monitor for infection (blue) 3D Confocal Microscopy 63x (objective lens magnification)

18th Place Justin Zoll Justin Zoll Photography Ithaca, New York, USA Amino acid crystals (L-glutamine and beta-alanine) Polarized Light, Image Tiling 4x (objective lens magnification)

19th Place Pierre Anquet La Tour-du-Crieu, Ariège, France Vespa velutina (Asian hornet) with venom on its stinger Reflected Light, Focus Stacking 6.3x (objective lens magnification)

20th Place Dr. Nicolás Cuenca & Isabel Ortuño-Lizarán University of Alicante, Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain Human retina Immunocytochemistry and Confocal Microscopy 40x (objective lens magnification)

[All images are courtesy of Nikon Small World and used with permission]

Source: https://bloghyped.com/these-are-the-winning-photos-from-the-2018-nikon-small-world-competition-prepare-to-be-amazed/

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It’s Bears vs. Sheep in the Pyrenees. The Shepherds Are Traumatized.

By Adam Nossiter, NY Times, July 23, 2018

ST.-GIRONS, France--The big brown bear is rarely seen in the mountains, but there are hints of its looming presence: a paw-print in the mud, a sheep’s mangled remains, furtive video images captured by government cameras.

The nearly invisible bear haunts the shepherds who drive their flocks across the high Pyrenees, the sheep flecking the dark green slopes with patches of white and supplying France with savory cheeses and tender lamb.

Hidden by the omnipresent fog or glimpsed only from a distance, the predatory bear has driven some of these sheepmen from the high meadows, and they vow never to return.

“I’ve seen the carcasses,” said Christian Marrot, a sheep-raiser who was helping lead a flock through the streets of St.-Giron. “Now, I’m keeping mine below.”

Bears, sheep and humans are a volatile mix in these mountains. The combination has set up a classic French clash between the know-it-all state in Paris, guided by the stiff hand of the European Union, and one of France’s myriad microcultures.

The conflict is elemental: The French government is trying to restore the centuries-old brown bear population, which dwindled nearly to extinction by the 1990s, the victim of encroaching humanity and hunting.

The shepherds are not interested in the bear as “an element of the natural heritage in the Pyrenees,” as a government brochure puts it. They see their sheep being eaten, in sizable numbers.

If the bears are a hidden part of the landscape, their sheep prey are the opposite.

Every June, shepherds spend two days parading their flocks through area villages. In St.-Girons, citizens came to their windows, smiling, to watch 800 sheep stream through this gray provincial town. The main street became a sea of woolly white sheep, baahing and nuzzling their handlers to the delight of children watching open-mouthed from the sidewalk.

A shepherd yelled out “Ah-to!” to encourage the scrambling sheepdogs to keep order.

As the shepherds see it, the bears have pitted bureaucrats against peasants.

“They’re taking surveys in Paris about our life here in the Ariège,” grumbled Pierre Fort, 74, a sheep farmer tending his flock in the town’s streets, referring to the French department where most of the bears live. Each one of his animals had his initials stamped on its backside.

“They didn’t ask us if we wanted the bears here,” said Mr. Fort, his black beret clamped down on his head. He lost 35 sheep to the bears last year. “Too much,” he said. “It’s become impossible.”

This fall the government plans to introduce two more bears to the existing population of 43. A court ruling in March gave it little choice, after years of foot-dragging because of local opposition.

France was not living up to its commitment to reestablish the bears nor to a European Union mandate on biodiversity, the court ruled.

Despite the opposition, officials have been trucking in anesthetized bears from Slovenia for more than 20 years, releasing them in the mountains, then tracking them with great solicitude.

They issue lavish reports about the bears’ lifestyle, assign multiple wildlife agents to watch over them, film them nuzzling forest trees and give each a cuddly name, like Callisto or Cannellito or Caramellito.

The sheepmen grumble about that, too. In the old days, the bear was addressed simply and respectfully as “lo moussu,” or “the mister,” in local dialect.

The Slovenian bears have adapted to their new French surroundings as best they can. But the shepherds say these Central European animals don’t play by the same rules as the more civilized French bears of old, and are more prone to eat their sheep. They are tired of mourning over the bloodied remains of animals that are like family members.

“These Slovenian bears are much more opportunistic,” said Robin Cazalé, a farmer who lost three sheep to the bears last month.

The numbers back the belief that the bears are becoming more of a menace.

Bear attacks on sheep increased 46 percent in 2017, compared with 2016. Some 464 sheep were killed or wounded by bears, the greatest number since the bear-import program began in 1996.

Dozens of sheep, frightened by marauding bears, ran to their deaths off high cliffs last year, some 260 in all.

Tempers are rising in the Pyrenees over the issue. In the last year there have been demonstrations, arrests and gunshots in the air. The tension is likely to increase before the two new bears are dropped into the area in September. While bear hunting has been forbidden since 1962, the shepherds are threatening to ignore the ban.

A clandestine video of masked and hooded gunmen warning that bear hunting would begin again circulated widely, infuriating the local préfete, Paris’s top representative in the Ariège.

The bears are “a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads,” said François Thibaut, a former shepherd who said he had been losing 40 to 50 animals a year to the bears before giving up several years ago going to the mountain pasture with the animals.

“It’s a feeling of powerlessness,” said Mr. Thibaut, who now raises sheep in a cooperative. And that, that is very, very stressful. That breaks you, completely.”

In June, the police summoned three sheep breeders for questioning after shots were fired as wildlife agents were examining dead sheep for signs of a bear attack at Le Saleix, 60 miles from here.

The French government, the wildlife agents and the bear associations periodically declare only a minority of sheep farmers are against the bears, that most of the population supports them, that damage is relatively minor and that the owners are fully indemnified for any losses. No humans have been attacked by the bears, which typically range from 350 to 550 pounds, since the repopulation program began.

But all that discounts the psychological toll the bears have taken on these shepherds. They describe being at the mercy of the fog that envelops these mountains for hours, hiding the flock and allowing the bear to strike unseen.

Mr. Cazalé once saw a bear on the mountainside “calmly eating one of my beasts,” he said. “It was like seeing your dog being eaten.”

The bear, Mr. Cazalé added, “saw me, he was mocking me.”

The sheepmen fear the bears are ultimately attacking not only their flocks, but their way of life in the Pyrenees.

“The state needs to find a solution,” Mr. Cazalé said. “Because pretty soon they will have to release men in these mountains, not the bear.”

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