“…The main pathologies associated with BIV are lymphadenopathy, lymphocytosis, non‐suppurative meningoencephalitis, progressive wasting, low milk production, low blastogenic lymphocytic response, bovine paraplegic syndrome and secondary infections derived from immunosuppression (Carpenter et al, ; Snider et al, ; Suarez, VanDerMaaten, Wood, & Whetstone, ; Van Der Maaten, Boothe, & Seger, ). There is controversy about the association or predisposition that may exist between the BIV and the bovine leukaemia virus (BLV; Brujeni, Poorbazargani, Nadin‐Davis, Tolooie, & Barjesteh, ; González et al, ; Rola, Kozaczynska, Pluta, & Kuzmak, ; Rola‐Łuszczak, Kozaczyńska, & Kuźmak, ). Recent findings (De Oliveira et al, ) in BIV sequences found within multicentric B‐cell lymphomas from BLV‐negative cows suggest their oncogenic potential.…”