{"id":107,"date":"2019-04-25T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-04-26T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:57:32","slug":"kyasanur-forest-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/kyasanur-forest-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyasanur Forest Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Kyasanur Forest Disease?<\/h2>\n<p>Kyasanur forest disease &#8211; an acute infectious natural focal disease from the group of hemorrhagic fevers, caused by an arbovirus of group B, transmitted by ticks of the genus Haemaphysalis; characterized by sudden fever lasting 7-14 days, symptoms of general intoxication, moderate hemorrhagic syndrome; occurs in South India, similar to Omsk hemorrhagic fever.<\/p>\n<h2>Causes of Kyasanur Forest Disease<\/h2>\n<p>The causative agent is a virus of the family Togaviridae, of the genus Flavivvirus, belonging to arbovirus and antigenically close to the virus of Omsk hemorrhagic fever and tick-borne encephalitis.<\/p>\n<p>The reservoir and sources of the pathogen: among warm-blooded animals &#8211; squirrels, rats, porcupines, monkeys, as well as ticks Haemaphysalis spinigera.<\/p>\n<p>A person becomes infected by the bite of an infected tick.<\/p>\n<p>The natural susceptibility of people is high.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is endemic in the forest zone of Shimoga and Canara districts of Karnataka, India. Predominantly adult men are ill, visiting the territory of a natural hearth. Diseases occur mainly from December to May, with a peak in February &#8211; April.<\/p>\n<h2>Symptoms of Kyasanur Forest Disease<\/h2>\n<p>The incubation period lasts 3 to 8 days.<\/p>\n<p>The main clinical signs are fever lasting up to 2 weeks, headaches and muscle aches. In severe cases, gastrointestinal bleeding, hemoptysis develop. Often, after a period of relief (day 7-21), the second wave of fever begins with symptoms of meningoencephitis. The healing process lasts up to 4 weeks. Mortality can reach 10%.<\/p>\n<h2>Prevention of Kyasanur Forest Disease<\/h2>\n<p>Preventive measures: protection from tick attacks. Immunoprophylaxis measures are not developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Kyasanur Forest Disease? Kyasanur forest disease &#8211; an acute infectious natural focal disease from the group of hemorrhagic fevers, caused by an arbovirus of group B, transmitted by ticks of the genus Haemaphysalis;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anti-viral-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}