The sheep huddle together, bleeding from the nose, aborting lambs or suffocating on saliva as they succumb to bluetongue, a virus sweeping through flocks on the Italian island of Sardinia.

Her population is outnumbered by sheep 3:1. It brought us the words sardine (where once they were plentiful) and sardonic (meaning of Sardinia). The four moors on the flag of Sardinia (as opposed ...

A Sardinian sheep's milk cheese streaked with Calabrian chili paste. Raw cow's milk cheese coated in herbs and flowers from Bavaria. Creamy Brie made on a farm in western New Jersey. These are ...

MAP is distributed worldwide. In northern Italy, it infects 70% of bovine herds and approximately 60% of Sardinian sheep flocks are MAP positive. Sardinia is one of the regions with the highest ...