In recent days, Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) has been portrayed as a terrifying threat to cattle in Southeast Asia. A lump like nodules in the external skin and mucus membrane with fever and swollen lymph nodes are the preliminary noticeable signs for this devastating disease. It is commonly an arthropod-borne contagious illness, correspondingly the non-vector spreading through body discharge and infected fomites. A pronounced socio-economic collapse is driven by reduced quantity and quality of milk, udder infection, low quality hides, loss of draught power, abortion, infertility, limitation to meat ingestion, higher morbidity, etc. Animals of any age and gender are susceptible to disease. The morbidity rate varies accordingly immune status of animal and frequency of mechanical vectors. Primarily the disease was endemic in most Sub-Saharan regions of Africa, consequently extent to Middle-East, Europe, and Asia. In the South-Eastern part of Asia, the disease has first been introduced in Bangladesh in July 2019 followed by China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Myanmar. Bangladesh recorded the maximum attack rate in Chattagram whereas at Cuttack in India. Particular vulnerable locations of other countries are yet to be confirmed. There is no epidemiological proceeding considering the present LSD situation report from rest of Asia. Strict quarantine, vector control, and prophylactic vaccine might be the best remedy for limiting the disease risk factors. However, validated future studies for measuring true disease burden and profound factors in the perspective of geographic distributions are indispensable.
Key words: LSDV, LSD, South East Asia, Bangladesh, cattle, vaccine
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