Vinh City announced an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in cattle and buffaloes in Nghi Lien commune.

Accordingly, along with the officiallumpy skin disease outbreak announcedOn the herd of buffaloes and cows in Nghi Lien commune, the Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee assigned the Vinh City Disease Prevention Steering Committee, the City Agricultural Service Center and Nghi Lien Commune People's Committee to focus on immediate implementation.measures to prevent and control epidemicson livestock as prescribed by the Veterinary Law 2015.

Mr. Nguyen Van Que's cow in Hamlet 7, Nghi Lien Commune (Vinh City) suffered from lumpy skin disease. After 4 days of care, the mother cow got better and started eating again, but the disease spread to her calf and gradually got worse. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Previously, on March 3, a cow of Mr. Nguyen Duc Loi's family in Bac Lien hamlet was about to die after suffering from lumpy skin disease for a while. By March 4, 14 cows in 6/10 hamlets of the commune also had lumpy skin and stopped eating, so the Nghi Lien Commune People's Committee reported and requested the City Agricultural Service Center to take samples for testing. The test results on March 7 confirmed that 14 cows of Nghi Lien commune were positive for lumpy skin disease.

If cattle are vaccinated and well cared for, they can recover from lumpy skin disease. However, if the lesions become ulcerated, they will become sick and die in just 5-7 days. Photo: Nguyen Hai

A representative of the Vinh City Agricultural Service Center said: Because there is no specific vaccine for the disease of lumpy skin disease in cattle, after consulting with the Provincial Veterinary Department, the Vinh City Agricultural Service Center is currently instructing people to clean barns with lime powder, use disinfectants to spray to kill flies and mosquitoes that spread the disease; recommending people to vaccinate and take care of their cattle; at the same time, requiring people to sign a commitment to keep them in barns, not to let them roam freely and to take them out of the area to prevent the spread of the disease.

The family of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vinh, Phuc Hau hamlet, Nghi Lien commune has 2 cows with quite severe lumpy skin disease and must be kept in a barn, making cleaning the barn very difficult. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Mr. Tran Tien Dung, Vice Chairman of Nghi Lien Commune People's Committee, added: Nghi Lien Commune currently has a herd of 650 buffaloes and cows, including 2 3B cow farms with a scale of 20-40 cows, the rest are raised by households, when there is an epidemic, people are quite worried. Currently, epidemic prevention measures are only based on folk experience and if there are no vaccination measures and good care, it is very dangerous for the herd because after just over a week, the cows will weaken and die.

Decision No. 1108/QD-UB dated March 8, 2021 of Vinh City People's Committee announcing the outbreak of lumpy skin disease in the herd of cattle in Nghi Lien commune, Vinh City. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Currently, the commune only has the title of urban civil servant and does not have any specialized veterinary or agricultural staff, so since the outbreak, the commune has been quite confused. Therefore, along with the request for the Agricultural Service Center to support human resources and prevention plans, the commune also sent a document requesting the city to urgently provide 100 doses of vaccine to vaccinate cattle and buffalo in 6 hamlets with the disease and then vaccinate the entire commune./.

Mr. Tran Tien Dung - Vice Chairman of Nghi Lien Commune People's Committee