India 185,000 cattle infected "Bull -like skin disease" Local department: drinking milk is safe and not transmitted to people

Since June this year, a "bull -shaped skin disease" that happened on the cattle began to spread throughout India. Recently, the latest statistics from the Indian animal husbandry department showed that including the capital New Delhi, India has 185,000 cattle in the country infected with this disease, of which 75,000 cows have died.

This is a cow isolation center in the Indian capital, New Delhi. The sick cattle is covered with small spots. This is a typical symptom infected with cow -like skin diseases. According to the veterinarian, bull -shaped skin disease was discovered for the first time in Zambia, Africa in 1929, and in 2019, India discovered the first case. This disease is caused by goat's acne virus. It is very contagious. The infected cattle pass through the mouth and nasal secretions from the virus, and then spread around by mosquito bites. At present, more than 500 sick cows have been found in New Delhi.

Paonica, Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau in the southwestern region of New Delhi: For India, bull -shaped skin diseases are a relatively new disease. In the past three years, this disease has appeared, mainly infected with cows or bulls, and this year Mainly happened to cows.

Indian government departments said that 9.7 million doses of vaccines have been sent in the epidemic area in early September, and mosquitoes were killed in a large scale in the ox field to block the spread chain. India has banned the transportation and transactions of cattle in many places.

India is one of the world's major milk production countries. The spread of cow -shaped skin diseases not only affected milk yield, but also caused people to worry about drinking milk. To this end, Indian government departments continue to conduct popular science from the public, indicating that bull -shaped skin diseases are not a kind of human and animals, and drinking milk is safe.

Paunica, deputy director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau in the southwestern region of New Delhi: This disease will not be transmitted to others. So far, there is no evidence that this disease will affect humans, so people do not need to worry about it.

Source: CCTV News

Edit: Liu Yuhong

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