| serological evidence of akabane virus infection in northern israel in 2001. | in february 2002 the first cases of a "blind newborn calves" syndrome with hydranencephaly appeared in israel. eighty-one serum samples, from 54 animals on farms where the syndrome was recorded and 27 others from unaffected farms were examined by neutralization of akabane virus (akav, strain obe-1) by the micro-titer method. forty-seven of the 54 samples from the affected farms contained high serum neutralization titers against akav (mean sn titer 79.5 and +/- 44.7, standard deviation), whereas ... | 2004 | 15133276 |