Lumpy skin disease detected on Taiwan proper for first time
04/15/2021 11:53 PM
Photo courtesy of the New Taipei City Government Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office
Taipei, April 15 (CNA) Beef cattle infected with Lumpy skin disease (LSD) were found on a farm in New Taipei s Linkou District on Thursday the first time in Taiwan proper, according to the Council of Agriculture (COA).
Eight of 130 cows raised on the farm were discovered to have a fever and nodules on their skin by New Taipei animal protection personnel during an inspection conducted on the farm the previous day.
PCR tests by the COA s Animal Health Research Institute using blood samples taken from three of the eight cows showed that they had contracted the disease caused by a capripox virus.