Nawalparasi. Nawalparasi: A total of 34 livestock have tested positive for lumpin in Bardaghat Susta West Nawalparasi. Recently, unvaccinated animals have started getting infected.

Shrawan Kumar Chaudhary, office chief of Nawalparasi Veterinary Hospital and Animal Service Expert Centre, said the risk of spreading lumpy skin has increased due to the outbreak of lumpy skin infection in unvaccinated padapadis and calves. According to him, lumpy skin has spread to Sunwal, Bardaghat, Susta, Pratappur and Ramgram.

According to Dr Bibhuti Singh of the Animal Service Expert Centre, regular treatment and inspection is being carried out in the infected areas. Although the number of animals dying due to this disease is low, farmers are worried about the decline in milk production, he said.

Stating that the infection of lumpy skin has been seen across the country in the recent past, he said that lumpy skin infection has been seen in Nawalparasi since last June. According to him, the infection of lumpy skin, which was first seen in Bardaghat, has now spread to all the five local levels of the district.

Chief Dr Chaudhary said, “The cows and buffaloes with lumpkin have fever and less food, milk production is reduced, feet and joints are heard, there may be wounds around the nose and mouth, there may be small round lumps on the skin and if there is a wound by cracking the girdle, it can cause tears.”

On July 1, 2017, a cow of Sundarharaicha Municipality-11 in Morang had symptoms of lumpy skin. The lumpy skin was confirmed on August 15, 2019, when tested by ‘molecular’ method at the Central Livestock Disease Investigation Laboratory, Tripureshwor.

According to the Central Referral Veterinary Hospital, Tripureshwor, lumpin has spread in 76 districts and 555,000 animals have been infected with the disease, out of which 21,000 animals have died.