After Goa, now Monkey Fever cases detected in Maharashtra

A string of Monkey Fever cases are now being detected from neighbouring Maharashtra after the disease left three dead and hundereds infected in Goa last year, according to state health officials.

Also, researchers say that Kyasanoor Forest Disease (KFD), which was originally detected in Kyasanoor forest of Shimoga in Karnataka, has been present all along the Western Ghats striking on farmers of Goa, Kerala and Maharashtra.

Patients are now being reported from Maharashtra. The disease is all across Western Ghats. There is no border for this disease. It is carried by ticks and is seasonal, mostly found between the months of December to May which is a dry season," G Arun Kumar, virologist working with Manipal University s Centre for Virus Research told

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