To prevent bovine nodular rash virus, these three kinds of vector mosquitoes are the key! Experts analyze the habits of insects, epidemic prevention requires a long-term war of resistance

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The global outbreak of bovine nodular rash (LSD) invaded Kinmen, leaving infected cattle skinny and skinny. The Council of Agriculture made every effort to prevent the virus from spreading to Taiwan. Huang Jincheng, vice chairman of the Council of Agriculture, said that the vaccine would be delivered next Tuesday at the latest to build an epidemic prevention wall, while Kinmen mobilized the whole county to disinfect and disinfect cattle farms inside and outside.

Du Wujun, a professor in the department of entomology at Chung Hsing University, said that among the three vector mosquitoes that transmit bovine nodular rash, Culicoides prefer a humid environment, stable stinging flies have a tendency towards white, and it is suggested that white glue plates can be used to trap ticks, while the only tick that can't fly has the habit of staying on animals for a long time and hiding in the grass when it doesn't suck blood, so it won't appear in vehicles.

Du Wujun warned, "the top priority for epidemic prevention in cattle farms on this island is to keep the environment dry and weeding." Although chemical control such as disinfectant sprinkling is done in cattle farms all over the country, it is effective in a short time, but the scope of disinfection is limited. The virus has an incubation period and the flying distance of vector insects is long, so cattle farm epidemic prevention will be a long-term war of resistance.