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India's monkey fever jab soon?
Mint New Delhi
|February 17, 2025
Kyasanur Forest Disease is an incurable, haemorrhagic fever transmitted by ticks from infected monkeys
The country's top medical research body—the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)—has partnered with Hyderabad-headquartered Indian Immunological Ltd to develop the country's first monkey fever vaccine.
Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), commonly known as monkey fever, is a vector-borne haemorrhagic fever transmitted by ticks from infected monkeys to people. It has no cure.
This story is from the February 17, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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