Before Covid-19, there was KFD!

  • 4 years ago
In the 1950s, before swine flu, Covid-19 would become household names, Karnataka witnessed the outbreak of one of the modern world's earliest zoonotic diseases in Kysanur, Shimoga : 'Monkey fever' or Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD). So, what is KFD and does it have any lessons to offer to confront today's zoonotic diseases?

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