Opinion
Northern Australian cattle producer, LSD AUSVETPLAN writing group member and former Cattle Council of Australia president Markus Rathsmann warns that more work is needed to develop pre-incursion strategies to minimise the risk posed by an outbreak of lumpy skin disease, and why an immediate vaccine supply for LSD is needed.
LUMPY Skin disease LSD has spread rapidly through Eastern Europe the Middle East and South East Asia in the last decade.
LSD was detected on March 2, 2022, on the island of Sumatra and has spread to at least five provinces.
There have now been two confirmed…
