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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Low immunity, hard to isolate’: How ageing stray cattle contributed to lumpy skin disease outbreak -Sayantan Bera

‘Low immunity, hard to isolate’: How ageing stray cattle contributed to lumpy skin disease outbreak -Sayantan Bera

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published Published on Oct 8, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 13, 2022

-ThePrint.in

Free movement of unproductive cattle prone to infections has proven to be a severe challenge in restricting the viral disease and contributed most to mortality load, say experts.

New Delhi: Over the past few years, the rising population of stray cattle has been a menace to farmers. In several states in northern India, farmers regularly guard their fields at night and spend thousands on fencing to protect their crops.

But the impact of stray cattle — which mostly consist of unproductive, out-of-milk cows let loose by farmers, as well as bulls — is not limited to crop damage.

The abundance of stray cattle likely played a key role in the recent lumpy skin disease outbreak, with strays contributing the most to the mortality load, experts and government officials told ThePrint.

This is largely due to the fact that unproductive stray cattle lack immunity due to poor diet and are prone to infection when compared to domesticated cattle. They also spread the infection faster because, unlike domesticated cattle, they are seldom quarantined and roam freely.

Lumpy skin disease is a viral infection that affects cows and buffaloes and is usually transmitted by vectors like mosquitoes. Once an animal is infected, circular firm nodes, or lumps, appear on the skin alongside fever and lesions in the mouth, leading to death in some cases.

Till the end of September, the disease had affected 20 lakh cattle in 15 Indian states with over 97,000 reported cattle deaths. Of this, Rajasthan accounts for close to 14 lakh infections and more than 60,000 deaths.

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ThePrint.in, 8 October, 2022, https://theprint.in/india/low-immunity-hard-to-isolate-how-ageing-stray-cattle-contributed-to-lumpy-skin-disease-outbreak/1158384/


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