Group Group IV ((+)ssRNA) Genus Flavivirus | Family Flaviviridae Rank Species | |
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Located
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.
Spread
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.
References
Kadam virus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA