National Beef Association
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BVD Fact Sheet: What is BVD

7th November 2014

Category: Health Fact Sheets

BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) is a complicated virus with a misleading
name: diarrhoea is not commonly seen in infected cows, and is
certainly not the reason that this disease costs the UK cattle industry
an estimated £50 – 75m per year.