Tuesday, 5 March 2019

PRO/AH/EDR> Kyasanur Forest disease - India (09): (KA) update

Hemorrhagic Fever -- India
Sagar taluk [Shimoga district] is reeling under a fresh outbreak of Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), also known as monkey fever, as 3 persons hailing from here have died because of this tick-borne viral infection in just 3 days. On [Sun 3 Mar 2019], [SP], 58, a resident of Nandodi from Aralagod gram panchayat [GP] in Sagar taluk, died at a private hospital in Manipal. With this, the KFD death toll in the district since December [2018] has touched 12. According to sources in the Department of

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6350000&promed&0

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