“…Large disease outbreaks are characterised by abortion, stillbirth or delivery of weak lambs, as well as placentitis or post-partum metritis, when naïve animals are infected during pregnancy (Marrie, 1990;Runge and Ganter, 2008;Roest et al, 2011;Runge et al, 2012;Georgiev et al, 2013;Lang, 2015). Abortion rates up to 60%, mainly in the final month of pregnancy, were seen during the outbreak of the disease in goats in The Netherlands last decade, with no signs of general illness.…”