'Blocking Lumpyskin Disease'... Proactive Intensive Quarantine in Icheon City

Rapid Response Quarantine Mobile Team Activation

On the 26th, Icheon City in Gyeonggi Province announced that it has launched a preemptive intensive quarantine to prevent the inflow of Lumpy Skin Disease. This measure follows the first confirmed case on the 19th in Seosan, Chungnam, and the 14th confirmed case on the 23rd in the neighboring Eumseong County, Chungbuk.

Icheon City's Rapid Response Quarantine Task Force is conducting quarantine measures around livestock farms to prevent Lumpy Skin Disease.
[Photo by Icheon City]

The city explained that it has activated a 'Rapid Response Quarantine Mobile Team' and divided the area into four zones to carry out residual fogging disinfection, larval control, and habitat removal activities around cattle farms in each zone, doing its best to prevent any blind spots in quarantine.

Lumpy Skin Disease, which mainly occurs in bovine animals, is transmitted through blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes. It is a viral Category 1 livestock infectious disease that causes nodules and lesions on the skin, mucous membranes, and internal organs, lymphadenopathy, and skin edema, leading to severe productivity decline. However, it does not infect humans.

An official from the Icheon Public Health Center's quarantine department stated, "We will make every effort to prevent and contain the outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease and other infectious diseases."

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