RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Cross-sectional study of Sc m

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleSchmallenberg virus (SBV) is a novel Orthobunyavirus infecting ruminants which emerged in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in August/September 2011 [1]. SBV transmission occurs through midge vectors and in-fection is mostly sub-clinical in adult animals [1]. The virus infections in pregnant domestic ruminants were quently, congenital musculoskeletal and neural malfor-mations observed in new-born animals leading to their death shortly after birth [2]. In view of recurrent SBV infections all over Europe, lively scientific debate over the importance of the sylvatic transmission cycle of the virus has emerged [3]. SBV infection has been already reported in the wildlife in Poland [4]. This study pre-sents wider perspective of SBV infections in wild rumi