South Korea: Continuous confirmation of bovine lumpiskin disease, livestock farms across the country are in emergency

Continuous confirmation of bovine ‘lumpiskin disease’… Livestock farms across the country are in ‘emergency’ 'Lumpiskin disease', a disease that occurs in cattle, is spreading after first appearing in Korea. Even the name is unfamiliar. Let's find out with an expert what lumpiskin disease is, what causes it, and whether it is okay to eat beef with this disease. Yoo Han-sang, professor of veterinary medicine at Seoul National University, is on the phone. Since the first case of lumpiskin disease was confirmed in Korea on the 20th, the number of confirmed cases has increased to four. To put it simply, lumps form on the cow's skin and it becomes bumpy. What symptoms are you experiencing? Due to the spread of type 1 livestock infectious disease, quarantine authorities have raised the crisis alert to 'serious'. Cattle being raised on confirmed farms were culled. The mortality rate is around 10%, which is much better than foot-and-mouth disease, but is there no cure? Cows near ...