Virus kills 100,000 cattle in India, threatens livelihoods

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Lumpy skin disease virus kills nearly 100,000 cattle, sickens two million more in India

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

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. To try and protect the industry, authorities are vaccinating healthy cows using a shot designed for a similar disease while efforts are underway to develop a more effective vaccine.

 

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That will mean less cows farting so it's a win for the environment, no? Of course, what happens to all the souls of the dead people these cows are toting around?

Climate control. Nature is on the job. What the hell are they feeding those steers? Lentils?

No it didn’t. You fake news robots are sure on a climate change lie this week eh. They pay you a bunch extra?

Poor darlings. We are ghouls to other animals.

It’s only cattle.

Just get your food from McDonald’s. This is not hard.

Theres always lentils and bugs

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