Since the official confirmation of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in central Sumatra in March 2022, the spread of the disease had been tightly restricted to the northern half of Sumatra until it was confirmed near Semarang in Central Java in September.
In an earlier article I speculated that the reason for the failure of the disease to spread south and east out from central Sumatera was due to the monsoonal wind direction (See Beef Central article in July).
LSD has now been confirmed in East Java near the city of Blitar with many other unofficial reports across a broad area from Southern…
