Lumpy skin disease outbreak in Pakistan

Lumpy skin disease was spotted in Pakistan in Jamshoro district, Sindh in November 2021.^[1] By 9 September 2022, over 7000 cattle had died.^[2] Pakistan has 93 million cattle and buffaloes.^[3]

Lumpy skin disease outbreak in Pakistan
Location	Pakistan
Date	November 2021 – present
Deaths	7,000+

In the beginning of March 2022, a representative of the Dairy and Cattle Farmers Association had requested government intervention in closing provincial borders for cattle.^[4] The association had also sent a letter to the Prime Minister in this regard.^[5][6] Samples from Karachi were sent to Islamabad for testing.^[4]

A goat pox vaccine has been found effective.^[7] Approval for imported vaccines was given in March 2022.^[8][9]

Further reading

Journals

• Azeem, Shahan; Sharma, Banshi; Shabir, Shafqat; Akbar, Haroon; Venter, Estelle (2022). "Lumpy skin disease is expanding its geographic range: A challenge for Asian livestock management and food security". The Veterinary Journal. 279. Accepted 10 December 2021: 105785. doi:10.1016/j.tvjl.2021.105785. hdl:2263/83431. PMID 34915159. S2CID 245183135. No LSD outbreaks have yet been reported in Pakistan, which has approximately 85 million cattle and buffaloes and the third largest cattle and buffalo populations in Southeast Asia (Roche et al., 2020).

Articles

• Omer, Shahab (17 July 2022). "In the aftermath of Eid, where does lumpy skin disease stand?". Profit by Pakistan Today.
• "Lumpy skin disease badly affects beef business in Peshawar". Pakistan Observer. 6 September 2022.
• Arshad, Malik (12 August 2022). "Sale of beef banned in Noorpur Thal". The Express Tribune.
• Ilyas, Faiza (22 March 2022). "Milk, meat sales fall as lumpy skin disease spreads to 22 districts in Sindh". Dawn.

References

1. Mahmood, Amjad (29 August 2022). "Bracing for a second wave of the lumpy skin disease". Dawn.
2. Hanif, Haseeb (9 September 2022). "Lumpy skin disease kills 7,500 cattle". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
3. Ebrahim, Zofeen (27 May 2022). "Fears of lumpy skin disease resurgence at Eid festival". SciDev.Net. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
4. Ilyas, Faiza (3 March 2022). "Viral disease outbreak reported in cattle farms in Karachi, other parts of province". Dawn.
5. Nazir, Mudassir (3 March 2022). "Lumpy skin disease outbreak reported in Karachi cattle farms". Samaa English.
6. "Karachi dairy farmers seek Fed help over viral disease in livestock". Ary News. 3 March 2022.
7. Ahmed, Amin (8 March 2022). "Task force set up to combat spread of lumpy skin disease". Dawn. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
8. Rehman, Hamid ur (15 March 2022). "Pakistan approves vaccines to contain lumpy skin disease". Samaa. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
9. Ayub, Imran (29 March 2022). "Sindh set to import 1.9m doses of cattle vaccine after Drap approval". Dawn. Retrieved 3 October 2022.