Abstract

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an acute viral disease of cattle which recently emerged in Bangladesh that negatively impacts on livestock by reducing animal’s production, increasing management costs and death of infected animal. Recently Bangladesh has faced the ominous effects of LSD like other countries. Because of this pressing concern, the present cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the infection status and risk factors of LSD outbreaks from January 2023 to December 2023 in Bangladesh’s north- west area. A total 2858 cattle from various randomly selected farms were surveyed. The diagnosis was made on the basis of clinical inspection, clinical history and owners complain. The overall attack rate, mortality and case fatality were 37.6%, 2.8% and 7.5%, respectively but in calves (≤ 1 month), the attack rate, mortality and case-fatality were 44.3%, 9.3% and 21.3%, respectively. The infection status was discussed based on age, sex, breed, genotype, health status, immune status, coat colour, farm size, farming system, separation of affected animals, separation place, use of common utensils, introduction of new cattle, use of vaccine and season of the year. Among them age, sex, breed, health status, coat colour, farm size, farming system, use of common utensils and introduction of new cattle having no significant relationship with LSD outbreaks but in calves (≤ 1 year) age have significant association with occurrence of LSD. The risk factor analysis revealed that, the outbreaks of LSD was significantly (p

Key words: Emerging disease, Lumpy skin disease (LSD), Cattle, Epidemiology, Prevalence, Risk factor, Temporal distribution, Meteorology