Kyasanur Forest Disease in India: innovative options for intervention

• Published in: Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics Vol. 15; no. 10; pp. 2243 - 2248
• Main Author: Rajaiah, Paramasivan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis 03.10.2019; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Animals; Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control; Disease Vectors; Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne; Haemaphysalis spinigera; Haplorhini - virology; hemorrhagic fever; Humans; Incidence; India - epidemiology; Kyasanur Forest Disease; Kyasanur Forest Disease - epidemiology; Kyasanur Forest Disease - prevention & control; Kyasanur Forest Disease - veterinary; Monkey fever; Review; Tick borne virus infection; Vaccines, Inactivated; Viral Vaccines - therapeutic use; India; Haemaphysalis spinigera; Monkey fever; Tick borne virus infection; hemorrhagic fever; Kyasanur Forest Disease

Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) is a tick-borne hemorrhagic fever of human, caused by Kyasanur forest disease virus (KFDV) in India. The tick, Haemaphysalis spinigera, has been incriminated as the vector of KFDV. In human, KFD clinically presents with high fever, frontal headache, and severe myalgia,...