Thai Agriculture Ministry and Chulalongkorn University to Develop Lumpy Skin Disease Vaccine

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By Subhabhong Rarueysong

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry is working with Chulalongkorn University to develop Thailand’s first ever vaccine against lumpy skin disease (LSD) in cattle.

 

Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on said LSD, which is a disease caused by a capripox virus affecting cattle and buffalo, has struck cattle farms in several provinces. It is currently being tackled using imported vaccines.

 

He said the LSD vaccine will be developed for mass production in the country and for export, with a plant-based protein technology. A memorandum of understanding will be signed in the coming week.

 

Chulalongkorn University president Prof Bundhit Eua-arporn said the LSD vaccine development will be the first in a series of projects that will be rolled out by the ministry, in cooperation with Chulalongkorn. The university also agreed to allow its Siamsquare Innovation District to be used by the ministry to showcase projects being undertaken by its Agritech and Innovation Centre.

 

[impulse]

Dang.  Lumpy skin disease isn't what I thought.

 

From the title, I thought they found a treatment for cottage cheese thighs. 

 

Anyone solving the cellulite issue for wimmuns in the west would have been gazillionaires, and single handedly solved any Thai trade imbalances.   Thailand would be heroes for so many US and UK guys.  The hub of something spectacular.

 

Oh well...

 

Edited June 27, 2021 by impulse

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

He said the LSD vaccine will be developed for mass production in the country and for export, with a plant-based protein technology. A memorandum of understanding will be signed in the coming week.

So Thailand is developing a vaccine or just borrowing the recipe and manufacturing under licence?

[MrJ2U]

Probably be cheaper and smarter to just import the already proven LSD vaccine.

 

 

[bannork]

We had 7 of our 8 cows injected with the imported vaccine, 250 baht a shot. It seems to have done the trick though our youngest calf at 2 months was too young for the shot. She now has LSD. We're treating her and hope she pulls through.

[zhounan]

Come on let's start mass population testing.

Now everyone is set up to be a guinea pig.

[Nanaplaza666]

People testing LSD ???????????? 

[unblocktheplanet]

I always knew LSD could cure anything!

[Burma Bill]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

vaccine against lumpy skin disease (LSD) in cattle.

 

Interesting, I wonder what other excuse for money will be hatched now that "sick buffaloes" can be cured!

[Justgrazing]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

He said the LSD vaccine will

 

send cows on the trip of their lives with fields full of rainbow grass and McDonald's serving beetroot burgers only .. 

[Surelynot]

7 hours ago, impulse said:

Dang.  Lumpy skin disease isn't what I thought.

 

From the title, I thought they found a treatment for cottage cheese thighs. 

 

Anyone solving the cellulite issue for wimmuns in the west would have been gazillionaires, and single handedly solved any Thai trade imbalances.   Thailand would be heroes for so many US and UK guys.  The hub of something spectacular.

 

Oh well...

 

Jeans are the only solution I am afraid.....but then it is too late for you to back out.!!!!!

[kickstart]

8 hours ago, bannork said:

We had 7 of our 8 cows injected with the imported vaccine, 250 baht a shot. It seems to have done the trick though our youngest calf at 2 months was too young for the shot. She now has LSD. We're treating her and hope she pulls through.

It seems to be a Thai thing ,cattle too young to inject ,it is the same with Foot and Mouth Disease ,calve under 5-6 months old are not injected with the vaccine  ,but the mortality rate in young calves with FMD is high .

As a rule LSD is not fatal .like FMD it is often  secondary disease and loss of condition is the main cause of death .

The piece below come from a veterinary dictionary. 

The causal virus is related to that of sheeppox. Lumpy skin disease appears epidemically or sporadically. Frequently, new foci of infection appear in areas far removed from the initial outbreak. Its incidence is highest in wet summer weather, but it may occur in winter. It is most prevalent along water courses and on low ground. Because quarantine restrictions designed to limit the spread of infection often fail, biting insects have been suspected as mechanical vectors; however, outbreaks have occurred under conditions in which insects practically could be excluded. Experimentally, three species of hard ticks found in Africa have been shown to biologically transmit the virus. Because the disease can be experimentally transmitted by infected saliva, contact infection is another potential route of infection. African buffalo are suspected as maintenance hosts in Africa, but other wildlife species may also be involved.

[Damrongsak]

"Lumpy Skin Disease"

 

I'm pretty sure I heard a band by that name when I was a teenager.

 

But to be serious, it's rough on the poorer farmers to have to deal with this. ( I worked with farmers 1977-79 as a Peace Corps volunteer).