Need to better control lumpy skin disease

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has called for broader cattle vaccination to keep lumpy skin disease under control in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Lumpy skin disease is a cattle pox virus transmitted by biting insects that can be deadly for cattle but does not affect humans. The disease used to be confined to Africa. In 2013, it emerged in Turkey and then quickly spread through 9 countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Non-effected countries also need to vaccinate In a posi