Kadam virus
# Kadam virus

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

## 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

In the early 1980s, Kadam virus;; was found to be spread in Saudi Arabia by Hyalomma ticks when found on a dead camel at Wadi Thamamah in Riyadh.

