Four teams will make people aware of the virus. The Delhi government has deployed two mobile veterinary clinics and set up 11 rapid response teams to collect samples. In Delhi, most cases of lumpy skin disease have been detected in the Goyla dairy area, Rewla Khanpur area, Ghumanhera and Najafgarh. The symptoms include high fever, reduced milk production, skin nodules, loss of appetite, increased nasal discharge and watery eyes, among others.Īccording to the Centre, the disease has spread in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh and more than 57,000 cattle have died due to it. It does not transmit from cattle to humans. Lumpy skin disease is a contagious viral disease that spreads among cattle through mosquitoes, flies, lice and wasps by direct contact, as also through contaminated food and water. The government will adopt the ring vaccination strategy in which healthy cattle in a 5 km radius of the affected areas will be given goat pox vaccine with the Uttarkashi strain of the virus, he said. “We had a meeting with officials of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying on Saturday and requested them to make the vaccine available as soon as possible,” the official said. The central government which is finalising the rate contract with the supplier has assured that 60,000 doses will reach us soon,” he told PTI. “Delhi has a cattle population of 80,000. A senior official said there has been no increase in the cases since last evening.No death has been reported so far. This is for the first time that the Delhi government has reported cases of lumpy skin disease in the city.
These vaccine doses will be administered free of cost.ĭevelopment Minister Gopal Rai on Saturday said that 173 cases of lumpy skin disease have been found among cattle in Delhi, mostly in the southwest district.
The Delhi government will purchase 60,000 doses of goat pox vaccine to inoculate healthy cattle in the capital to prevent the spread of lumpy skin disease. Development Minister Gopal Rai said 173 cases of the disease have been found among cattle in Delhi.
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