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Lumpi-ProVacInd vaccine
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- Lumpi-ProVacInd, an indigenous vaccine for lumpy skin disease (LSD), has been launched recently.
- It has spread across states, causing deaths of hundreds of cattle since 2019.
- Lumpi-ProVacInd, the vaccine, has been developed by two institutes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
- The disease was endemic in Africa.
- In the last 2-3 years, after entrapping the southern states of India, an outbreak /epidemic of LSD has spread to Punjab and other states of northern India.
- The disease occurs mostly in cows and somewhat less in buffaloes.
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