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INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF POVERTY
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-015-0066-9
Keywords
Kyasanur Forest disease; Ticks; Virus disease; Disease outbreak; Transmission; India
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Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in five districts of Karnataka state, India. Recent reports of the spread of disease to neighboring districts of the Western Ghats, namely Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka, Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad and Malappuram districts in Kerala, and Pali village in Goa are a cause for concern. Besides vaccination of the affected population, establishing an event-based surveillance system for monkey deaths in the national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests of the Western Ghats would help detect the disease early and thereby help implement appropriate control measures.
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