Since June this year, a "bob blocky skin disease" that occurs in cattle has begun to spread throughout India. Recently, the latest statistics from the Indian animal husbandry department show that 185,000 cattle have been infected in India, including the capital New Delhi , of which 75,000 have died.
This is a sick cattle isolation center in New Delhi, the capital of India. The sick cattle are covered with small patches of spots, which is a typical symptom of infection with cow blocked skin disease. According to veterinary, bovine lumpy skin disease was first discovered in Zambia in Africa in 1929, and the first case was found in India in 2019. This disease is caused by goat pox virus and is highly contagious. Infected cattle excrete the virus through the secretions of the mouth and nose, and then spread everywhere through mosquito bites . Currently, more than 500 diseased cattle have been found in New Delhi.
Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau in Southwest New Delhi, Baonikar: For India, cow blocked skin disease is a relatively new disease. This disease has appeared in the past three years, mainly infecting cows or buffaloes, and this year it mainly occurs in cows.
Indian government departments said that 9.7 million doses of vaccines have been distributed in epidemic areas since early September, and large-scale mosquito culled in cattle farms to block the transmission chain, while many places in India have banned the transportation and trading of cattle.
India is one of the world's major milk producers. The spread of cow blocked skin disease not only affects milk production, but also raises people's concerns about the safety of drinking milk. To this end, Indian government departments have been conducting popular science to the public, indicating that cow blocked skin disease is not a zoonotic disease and drinking milk is safe.
Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of Southwest New Delhi: This disease will not be transmitted to people. So far, there is no evidence that the disease will affect humans, so people don’t need to worry about it.
(Source: CCTV News)
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