KAYASANUR FOREST DISEASE AND MODERN CIVILIZATION

© 2018-2019 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar

Re:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kyasanurs-ticking-time-bomb/article26093497.ece?homepage=true

details of the

kfd are available in karnataka:state of the

environment report 1983-84,cj saldanha. centre for

taxonomic studies,bangalore.1984.

from the info given there we derive that there is a

correlation between permanent pastures lost and the

spread of kfd, correlation 95% , p less than 0.001

applying the students t test to data given in

ramaprasad and kirti malhotra.op cit.1984. land use

and water resources table 5 and data for the increase

or advent of the number of foci of kfd in

shimogha,uttara kannada and finally in dakshina

kannada between 1957 and 1983. it is interesting to

note that after the linganamakki dam became

operational in 1953 the kfd was first detected in

shimogha  in 1957.

it is clear that the foci spread with the clearing of

the forests and the shrinkage of the permanent

pastures and other grazing lands with the advent of

dam building and usurpation of pastures by submergence

and development.

from the abundant evidence available and from

fundamental physiological properties of forests and

ecological considerations, including impact on the

health of human beings like kfd and japanese

encephalities, as is evident also from recent

newsreports in the hindu, indian express and others

like deccan herald, we must prevent the coming up of

hydro schemes having the above impacts. we are in for

a lot of work.

this i wrote in 1999. In 2019 we see the terribly intensified destructive effects of  modern civilization, a society of specialists in Karnataka hurtling all life towards Pralaya.
Ref: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kfd-surveillance-is-no-longer-taking-place-says-scientist/article26169165.ece?utm_source=udmprecommendation_op-ed&utm_medium=sticky_footer&transactionId=6b9a744da97f4addbd961a7e5ad06430

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