PRO/AH/EDR> Lumpy skin disease – Europe (18): preventive vaccination considered, RFI

Lumpy Skin Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Austria has called on the European Commission to play a more active role in fighting the cattle disease lumpy skin disease [LSD]. Some Member States supported the call. They want the European Commission to take a leading role on the purchase and distribution of vaccines against the disease. This has been reported by the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Van Dam, in a letter to the parliament in which he addressed the European Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting of 18 Jul [2016] in