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Human Can’t Get Lumpy Skin Disease

KARACHI: These days people in Sindh and Punjab are opting for chicken or mutton instead of beef meat fearing that Lumpy Skin Disease might make them sick. 

Many consumers even stopped buying cow milk. News Pakistan.tv interviewed Dr. Nazeer Hussain Kalhoro Director General Livestock Sindh, to decipher this enigma apropos  According to Dr. Kalhoro humanity has known about the existence of Lumpy Skin Disease for a century now. And there in in evidence that ever a human being got infected.

He told that mostly the disease spread by means of mosquitoes that bite infected cow and transmit the disease to another cow. Dr. Kalhoro pointed out that even buffaloes, goats and sheep do not get infected due to mosquito bites. He further informed that due to extensive vaccination carried out by the governments the spread of the disease has been contained.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.