title: Kadam virus
text: # 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.
  
  