What is lumpy skin disease that killed nearly 100K cattle in India?

Other symptoms include immediate weight loss, lesions in the mouth, reduced milk yield, pregnant cows and buffaloes often suffer miscarriage, and even death.India is the world's largest milk producer, making up more than a fifth of global production - but exports are only a fraction of this.

Vaccines have been developed for the first two, and offer up to 60-70 per cent cross-protection against LSD in cattle. Farmers in affected states, like the Himalayan Himachal Pradesh, have also urged the government for financial aid.A study of the LSD virus' genetic makeup found that it was very different from previous versions, said Vinod Scaria, a scientist at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi.

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