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Kyasanur Forest Disease 2025
April 18 , 2025
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- Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), also known as "monkey fever," is on the rise in Karnataka.
- This tick-borne viral disease is of serious health concern to people who live in and around forest belts.
- KFD is viral haemorrhagic fever that is due to the Kyasanur Forest Disease Virus (KFDV) belonging to the Flaviviridae family.
- It was initially detected in 1957 in the Kyasanur Forest of Karnataka.
- Humans are infected mainly through the bite of the infected hard ticks, especially Haemaphysalis spinigera.
- The virus exists in forest ecosystems among small mammals, monkeys, and ticks.
- The Human beings are incidental hosts and do not play a role in the transmission cycle.
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