Chungnam Province Declares End of Bovine Lumpy Skin Disease... "Movement Restrictions Lifted"

Chungnam Province has declared the end of bovine lumpy skin disease. This comes just two months after the initial outbreak, and the restrictions on cattle movement (trade) within the quarantine zones have also been lifted.

A livestock farm in Bongnak-ri, Buseok-myeon, Seosan-si, Chungnam is administering the Lumpy Skin Disease vaccine. Photo by Yonhap News

On the 20th, Chungnam Province announced that all 21 quarantine zones set up in 9 cities and counties, including Seosan, have been lifted as of midnight.

With the lifting of the quarantine zones, cattle trade within farms in the previously restricted areas is now fully permitted. The lumpy skin disease quarantine zones were lifted two months after the first domestic case was reported at a Hanwoo farm in Seosan on October 19.

In Chungnam, no additional confirmed cases of lumpy skin disease have been reported for over a month since the last case in Buyeo on the 16th of last month.

So far, lumpy skin disease has occurred in 41 farms across 9 cities and counties in Chungnam, resulting in the culling of 1,797 cattle.

Due to the outbreak, Chungnam Province has conducted emergency vaccinations on 526,000 cattle across 12,000 cattle farms within the region.

Additionally, next year, the province plans to continue mass vaccination campaigns and focus on controlling and disinfecting insects such as mosquitoes and flies. Cooperation with livestock-related organizations and disease surveillance efforts will also be promoted.

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