Vaccination of all cattle to be finished next week: COAStaff writer, with CNAAll cattle in the nation are to be vaccinated against lumpy skin disease by next week, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said on Monday. Eight beef cattle infected with the disease were discovered on a farm in New Taipei City’s Linkou District (林口) on Thursday — a first for Taiwan proper. The annual output value of the nation’s beef and dairy cattle industry is about NT$14 billion (US$497.5 million), the council said. Lumpy skin disease is a viral disease that affects cattle and buffalo. It was detected for the first time in Taiwan in the island county of Kinmen in July last year, which led to the vaccination of all of the roughly 6,200 cattle there.

Source: Taipei Times April 20, 2021 15:56 UTC