Effectiveness and cost-benefit study to encourage herd owners in sharing costs for vaccination programme against bluetongue serotype-8 in Belgium

This study evaluated the effectiveness of vaccination against BTV-8 in Belgium and has shown that the interaction between the time since the first injection and the second injection of the primo-vaccination is significantly associated to the change in serology showing vaccine efficiency induces antibodies production. This study also clearly confirms the benefit of vaccination by reducing economic impact of treatment and production losses, especially in dairy cattle herds.