Faced with an outbreak of lumpy skin disease, the French government has deployed the armed forces to accelerate a nationwide cattle vaccination campaign targeting around 750,000 animals.

A convoy of farmers have set off from south west France heading for Paris with the intention of staging a protest in the ...

French farmers are protesting against government measures to contain an outbreak of lumpy skin disease, including the compulsory culling of ...

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Mass culls to stop the spread of lumpy skin disease have sparked clashes between farmers and police in France - the UK government has brought in a ban on cheeses to stop the virus crossing the Channel ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France confirmed the country's first outbreak of lumpy skin disease at a cattle farm on Sunday, the agriculture ministry said. Lumpy skin disease, which causes blisters and reduces ...

Lumpy skin disease is an infectious disease of cattle characterized by the eruption of cutaneous nodules on any part of the body, fever, emaciation, enlarged lymph nodes, edema of the skin, and ...

Strict culling rules ignite nationwide anger as cases of the deadly outbreak of lumpy skin disease, which cannot be passed on to humans, surge in the southwest of the country ...

Once limited to Africa, lumpy skin disease has over the past four years appeared for the first time in various parts of Asia and Europe. Its vectors in Asia are not yet fully understood. (Photo: ...

PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - France will vaccinate 1 million head of cattle in coming weeks against lumpy skin disease, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on Saturday, as farmers blocked highways ...