September 27, 2022 10:16 PM
Lumpy skin disease
<span style="color: #222222;">1) Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), a virus from the family Poxviridae, genus Capripoxvirus. Sheeppox virus and goatpox virus are the two other virus species in this genus.<br />''<br />''2) LSDV is highly host specific and causes disease only in cattle (Bos indicus and B. taurus) and water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis).<br />''LSDV is not zoonotic, so humans cannot get affected by the dis...