Dhaka, Feb. 11 -- Bangladesh will export locally produced vaccines in the future while ensuring domestic demand, Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhtar said on Sunday.

"Lumpy Skin Disease is a transboundary animal disease, and its impact extends beyond livestock, affecting people directly and indirectly," she said.

She made the remarks as the chief guest at a ceremony marking the handover of the Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) vaccine seed developed under the "Zoonosis and Transboundary Animal Disease Prevention and Control Research" project by the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) at a hotel in Dhaka.

Highlighting the importance of vaccine production, she urged authorities to assess the economic damage caused by the disea...