Contagious cattle disease spreads in hill districts

The lumpy skin disease has already spread to 35 districts, killing more than 70 cattle and infecting around 15,000 during the current fiscal year.

More than 70 cattle died of lumpy skin disease, which has spread to almost all wards of Belaka Municipality of Udayapur district. Officials at the municipality said that about 15 to 20 cases of infection or deaths get reported in the municipality every day.