UGM Professor Ensures Lumpy Skin Disease in Cows Is Not Infecting Humans, The Meat Is Not Worth Consuming

YOGYAKARTA, KOMPAS.com- Professor of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FKH) Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Prof. drh. Wasito, Ph.D mentioned, disease lumpy skin disease or skin bumps on cow and buffaloes are not contagious to humans.

However, beef infected with the disease caused by Capripoxvirus is not fit for consumption.

“Not zoonotic. Transmission occurs mainly in other cows and buffalo,” said Wasito in a written statement from UGM Public Relations, Wednesday (9/03/2022).

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Wasito conveyed that cattle and buffalo farm owners who found their livestock infected with LSD should disinfect the cage.

Then the infected cows are advised to be separated from the others or isolated.

“Cow Those who are sick are stamped out immediately and the beef is not fit for consumption,” he said.

According to Wasito, this meat is not suitable for consumption, according to Wasito because the cows affected by LSD lack protein nutrition, especially amino acids that were previously used for virus replication.

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Lumpy skin disease that infect cattle can actually be observed from the clinical symptoms.

Wasito assessed that the increase in cases of this disease was due to the slowness of early detection in the field.

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