Animal virus 2022

 

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Introduction

Lumpy skin disease is a contagious viral disease that affects cattle and causes fever, nodules on the skin and can also lead to death

Over 7,300 cattle have died so far due to ‘lumpy skin disease’ in eight states including one Union Territory, and vaccination drive has been stepped up to contain the infection, a senior government official said.

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a contagious viral disease that affects cattle. It is transmitted by blood-feeding insects, such as certain species of flies and mosquitoes, or ticks. It causes fever, nodules on the skin and can also lead to death.

Lumpy skin disease virus different from 2019 version

The lumpy skin disease (LSD) virus that has killed at least 50,000 cattle in India this year maybe structurally different from the version of the virus prevalent in India in 2019, raising questions on whether the new vaccine being developed for safeguarding cattle may be adequately protective.

India begins study on animal-to-human transmission of lumpy virus.

NEW DELHI :Government scientists have launched a study on whether lumpy virus, which has killed 60,000 head of cattle, can also be transmitted to humans.

Highlights

• The disease is caused by a virus in the family Poxviridae
• The systemic effects include pyrexia, anorexia, dysgalactia and pneumonia
• The first case of the Lumpy Skin Disease was reported in April in Gujarat's Kutch region

By India Today Web Desk: With several states of the country facing a major outbreak affecting cattle, the Punjab government has urged the Centre to include the Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in the National Animal Disease Control Programme. The viral outbreak has so far killed over 57,000 cattle across India.

Punjab is the second state after Himachal to ask the Centre to take action on the deadly infection. The Himachal Pradesh government had urged the Centre to declare Lumpy Skin Disease an epidemic.

So, what is this deadly infection, which has governments from Jharkhand to Gujarat to Maharashtra on edge?

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WHAT IS LUMPY SKIN DISEASE?

Lumpy Skin Disease is a viral outbreak that targets cattle and is transmitted by blood-feeding insects like mosquitoes, flies, lice and wasps by direct contact and also through contaminated food and water. The disease is characterised by the development of nodules in the skin, which may cover the whole of the animal's body, and lesions are often found in the mouth and upper respiratory tract.

According to the National Library of Medicine at the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, the systemic effects include pyrexia, anorexia, dysgalactia and pneumonia, which leaves the animal with severe emaciation, loss of production for several months, infertility, and in extreme cases, death.

Also Read | Maharashtra announces aid as 42 cattle succumb to lumpy

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN INDIA?

The first case of the Lumpy Skin Disease was reported in April in Gujarat's Kutch region and since then the outbreak has spread, through India including in the states of Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab, among others. Delhi has over 200 cases of the infection and most cases have been detected in the southwest Delhi districts -- Goyla dairy area, Rewla Khanpur area, Ghumanhera and Najafgarh.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has asked state Animal Husbandry department officials to be alert and take steps to curb the spread of lumpy skin disease among cattle. The Nanded district administration in Maharashtra has banned the holding of cattle markets and ordered that animals infected by the lumpy skin disease cannot be brought into regular markets. The authorities said that attle coming into the Nanded district will be screened at the borders of the district.

THERE A VACCINE FOR LUMPY SKIN DISEASE?

Yes, there is a vaccine against viral infection.

So far, Sheepox virus (SPV) and goat pox virus (GPV) -based vaccines were being used to counter the disease. But now, Indian scientists have also developed an indigenous vaccine against LSD. The ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines (ICAR-NRCE) in collaboration with ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) has developed a vaccine against Lumpy Skin Disease. Lumpi-ProVacInd

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the issue of the viral outbreak among animals said, "We are committed to 100 per cent vaccination of livestock by 2025, for foot and mouth disease. Our scientists have also prepared an indigenous vaccine for Lumpy Skin Disease."

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