Virus kills 100,000 cattle in India, threatens livelihoods

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A viral disease has killed nearly 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened over 2 million more.

A man stands amid cows infected with lumpy skin disease at a cow shelter in Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India, Sept. 21, 2022. Infected cows and buffaloes get fever and have lumps on their skin. The viral disease that is spread by insects like mosquitoes and ticks has killed at least 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened more than 2 million.

Farmers have experienced severe losses from extreme weather events over the past year: a record-shattering heat wave in India reduced wheat yields in April, insufficient rainfall in eastern states like Jharkhand state shriveled parched winter crops such as pulses, and an unusually intense September rainfall has damaged rice in the north.

“It's a serious, serious issue and this … has been growing since the last couple of years,” he said, adding that the government figures were likely an undercount of the actual death toll from the disease. India's vast hinterland is now punctuated by mass graves of cows. In some places, the carcasses rot in the open and the pained cries of sick animals are resound in villages. Western Rajasthan state has seen the worst impact: 60,000 cattle dead and nearly 1.4 million sickened.

 

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If these gets to humans, hmmm.

Climate change?

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Chem Trails

Indiflu is coming......

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There go the 'gods'

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Good thing they don’t eat them.

After a state 💉 of every single animal.

Cowpox, chicken pox, monkey pox, swine flu, bird flu, etc killing the meat industry.

Why are there cattle in India? Thought they were on a different level.

Dont torture them, go vegan.

We need to insulate our national parks from diseases like this carried by cattle. Ban all livestock from public lands in the US, at least that would create a buffer zone around many of our most iconic parks. Stop all hunting of predators as they control diseases like this.

Cowvid

I bet you it's man or lab created...no proof, just a hunch.

Climate change activities would be happy about this , why because they’re dim wits and heartless 👍

At least we know they won’t be eating them.

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Holy cow

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