News & updates: Fake news in social media: LSD transmitted through milk

        According to a senior official of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, it is acceptable to consume milk from cattle with Lumpy Skin Disease, which is a non-zoonotic infection and not transferable from animals to humans (IVRI).

        More than a dozen states, including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and Karnataka, have reported cases of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). According to statistics kept by the Department of Animal Husbandry, the disease has infected 16.42 lakh cattle in 197 districts and has killed 75,000 animals between July and September 11, 2022.

According to Ashok Kumar Mohanty, Joint Director of IVRI, LSD is not a zoonotic disease and it is not transmitted from animals to humans.

"Milk from sick livestock can be consumed without concern.

In social media these photos are circulating, "LSD will transmit through milk which is fake", and these photos and news is totally fake.