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Lumpy Virus: After 60 sheep and goats perished in Lahaul from an unidentified illness, the virus began to spread once more in Kinnaur

 Lumpy Virus: After 60 sheep and goats perished in Lahaul from an unidentified illness, the virus began to spread once more in Kinnaur


Deputy Director Animal Husbandry District Kinnaur Ashok Saini announced that medications have come in response to the lumpy virus in Himachal. Although there is no shortage of medications, more are on the way. There is a distribution of medications in the impacted areas.


Shimla. In the Himachal Pradesh district of Lahaul Spiti, animals have become infected with an unidentified ailment. About 200 sheep and goats in this area have this unidentified sickness. Currently, 60 sheep and goats have passed away, with the remainder receiving medical attention. These are the throne's goats. Sheep and goats who were ill were treated by two doctors, two pharmacists, and two Class IV staff members of the Animal Husbandry Department. Amitabh Singh, the executive deputy director, claims that things are now under control. The illness has not yet been identified.


The Lumpy illness, on the other hand, has started to spread quickly throughout much of district Kinnaur. Darshan animals have been killed thus far. The locals claim that neither the employees nor the department have any medications.


who occasionally has the ability to heal helpless creatures. In such circumstances, Kinnaur's Lumpy Skin Disease can manifest in dreadful ways.


According to the data, the Lumpy virus has rapidly spread among animals in the Kinnaur subdistricts of Chagaon, Meeru, Ula, Urni, Tapri, Choling, and Bhava Nagar. People claim that the government had put in place the necessary measures to stop the disease's spread when it began in Himachal Pradesh last year.


According to Vinod and Sher Singh of Urni village's Ajit Bhaba Nagar, the lumpy sickness is persistently expanding. But the government does not provide access to medications. Bhaba Nagar resident Vinod reported that his two cows are ill. The veterinary pharmacy is not stocked with medications, and neither are doctors visiting for care—the doctors can't even answer the phone.


Two days ago, a Nathpa Panchayat committee led by a former member of the Panchayat Samiti of Mumbai met with the minister of gardening and revenue in Bhava Nagar and urged that he take immediate action to combat this disease.


The medications have come, according to Ashok Saini, Deputy Director of Animal Husbandry District Kinnaur. Although there is no shortage of medications, more are on the way. There is a distribution of medications in the impacted areas. According to the department's data, 288 cows have been diagnosed with lumpy skin disease in the district so far; 143 have been cured, and 137 still have the ailment. There are 8 dead cows.


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