Kadam virus

Kadam virus
Virus classification
Group:	Group IV ((+)ssRNA)
Family:	Flaviviridae
Genus:	Flavivirus
Species:	Kadam virus

The Kadam virus (or KAD, strain MP6640) is a tick-borne Flavivirus.

The virus was first isolated by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda after samples were taken from cattle in Karamoja in 1967. The viruses were usually only found from Rhipicephalus and Amblyomma ticks around Kenya and Uganda infecting cattle and humans.

Around the beginning of the 1980s the Kadam virus was found to be spread in Saudi Arabia by Hyalomma ticks when found on a dead camel at Wadi Thamamah in Riyadh.

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