lumpy skin disease outbreak in Pakistan
{{Short description|Cattle disease outbreak in Pakistan}}
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| location = Pakistan
| date = November 2021 – present
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| deaths = 7,000+
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Lumpy skin disease was spotted in Pakistan in Jamshoro district, Sindh in November 2021.{{cite web |last=Mahmood |first=Amjad |date=29 August 2022 |title=Bracing for a second wave of the lumpy skin disease |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1707359 |website=Dawn}} By 9 September 2022, over 7000 cattle had died.{{Cite web |last=Hanif |first=Haseeb |date=2022-09-09 |title=Lumpy skin disease kills 7,500 cattle |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/2375711/lumpy-skin-disease-kills-7500-cattle |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}} Pakistan has 93 million cattle and buffaloes.{{Cite web |last=Ebrahim |first=Zofeen |date=27 May 2022 |title=Fears of lumpy skin disease resurgence at Eid festival |url=https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/news/fears-of-lumpy-skin-disease-resurgence-at-eid-festival/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=SciDev.Net}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Ilyas |first=Faiza |date=March 3, 2022 |title=Viral disease outbreak reported in cattle farms in Karachi, other parts of province |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1677993 |website=Dawn}} The association had also sent a letter to the Prime Minister in this regard.{{cite web |last=Nazir |first=Mudassir |date=3 March 2022 |title=Lumpy skin disease outbreak reported in Karachi cattle farms |url=https://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/2517484 |website=Samaa English}}{{Cite web |date=March 3, 2022 |title=Karachi dairy farmers seek Fed help over viral disease in livestock |url=https://arynews.tv/dairy-farmers-karachi-viral-disease-livestock/ |website=Ary News}} Samples from Karachi were sent to Islamabad for testing.
A goat pox vaccine has been found effective.{{Cite web |last=Ahmed |first=Amin |date=2022-03-08 |title=Task force set up to combat spread of lumpy skin disease |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1678860 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Dawn}} Approval for imported vaccines was given in March 2022.{{Cite web |last=Rehman |first=Hamid ur |date=2022-03-15 |title=Pakistan approves vaccines to contain lumpy skin disease |url=http://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/2518947 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Samaa |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ayub |first=Imran |date=2022-03-29 |title=Sindh set to import 1.9m doses of cattle vaccine after Drap approval |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1682273 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Dawn}}
Further reading
;Journals
- {{Cite journal |last1=Azeem |first1=Shahan |last2=Sharma |first2=Banshi |last3=Shabir |first3=Shafqat |last4=Akbar |first4=Haroon |last5=Venter |first5=Estelle |date=2022 |others=Accepted 10 December 2021 |title=Lumpy skin disease is expanding its geographic range: A challenge for Asian livestock management and food security |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1090023321001805 |journal=The Veterinary Journal |language=en |volume=279 |pages=105785 |doi=10.1016/j.tvjl.2021.105785 |pmid=34915159 |s2cid=245183135 |quote=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).|hdl=2263/83431 |hdl-access=free }}
;Articles
- {{Cite web |last=Omer |first=Shahab |date=2022-07-17 |title=In the aftermath of Eid, where does lumpy skin disease stand? |url=https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/07/17/in-the-aftermath-of-eid-where-does-lumpy-skin-disease-stand/ |website=Profit by Pakistan Today}}
- {{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-09-06 |title=Lumpy skin disease badly affects beef business in Peshawar |url=https://pakobserver.net/lumpy-skin-disease-badly-affects-beef-business-in-peshawar/ |website=Pakistan Observer}}
- {{Cite web |last=Arshad |first=Malik |date=2022-08-12 |title=Sale of beef banned in Noorpur Thal |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/2370839/sale-of-beef-banned-in-noorpur-thal |website=The Express Tribune}}
- {{Cite web |last=Ilyas |first=Faiza |date=2022-03-22 |title=Milk, meat sales fall as lumpy skin disease spreads to 22 districts in Sindh |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1681145 |website=Dawn}}