Imagine you’re a steadily working musician. You’re in a band (or more than one band) and you play multiple jobs every week. You can’t remember the last weekend night you got to just sit home and relax ...

Bengaluru: Amid reports of an early outbreak of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), also known as monkey fever, Karnataka's much-awaited new vaccine against the tick-borne illness has been delayed by at ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Health authorities launched a yellow fever vaccination campaign on the north side of Brazil's largest city over the weekend after a dead monkey was found infected with the ...

Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao announces a new Sirsi laboratory for Monkey Fever (KFD) testing and detection. The lab aims to enable faster diagnosis, improve treatment, and reduce ...

Health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday asked officials to step up preparedness to ensure that deaths caused by Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), commonly known as monkey fever, are brought down to ...

A group of Argentine scientists, including health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, have announced that yellow fever is the culprit in a 2007-2008 die-off of howler monkeys in ...

Karnataka opens a second KFD testing lab to enhance early detection and treatment, reducing monkey fever mortality.

In rural Brazil, an outbreak of yellow fever that began in December is considered the largest in 14 years. With fears of the deadly viral hemorrhagic disease spreading to urban areas, another worry is ...

The Chinese CDC said a Beijing-based researcher, 53, became ill after dissecting two monkeys while studying non-human primate breeding.

Pigtailed macaques abound in the steamy jungles and swamps of Southeast Asia. They live in large, tight-knit social groups that can number from several dozen to as many as 50, and they love to be ...

KFD first emerged in Karnataka’s Shimoga district in 1957 marked by a spate of monkey deaths in the Kyasanur forest 4, giving the disease its name. Soon, around 70 people from neighbouring villages ...