Lumpy Skin Disease: Novel Insights Into A Newly Discovered Viral Pathogen With Transboundary Implications

Abstract

Abstract

The Lumpy Skin Disease Virus (LSDV) is a newly discovered cow pox viral infection that is now expanding across Asia. Asian farmers and policymakers place a great deal of weight on the state of the diseases. Wild calves in Hong Kong began to exhibit multi-focal dermatological nodules in them in October 2020, which were indicative of lumpy skin disease (LSD). It was further corroborated by gross and histopathological pathology, and sample in order to demonstrate the possibility of LSDV spreading in the absence of arthropods, this research reports an attempt to transmit the virus from infected to susceptible cattle kept in close quarters. By inoculating susceptible cattle via three ways compatible with mechanical transmission by arthropods onto the conjunctival sac, the arthropod transmission of LSDV was studied both intravenously and viral infection, middle.