India is the seventh largest country in the world with great diversity in its topography, climate, ecology, and demographic characteristics. Its land mass falls between 7° and 37° of latitude South. Except for the northern reaches of the country—the Himalayan states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh—where the minimum temperature falls below 0°C in winter, mos...

The existence of a new virus with many of the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the hepatitis A virus was first suggested following a waterborne outbreak in the Kashmir valley in India in 1978 (3). A few years later, the Soviet doctor Mikhail S. Balayan demonstrated a faecal-oral infection route by drinking a faecal extract from infected soldiers in a military camp in Afghanistan....

The Spotted Small Flat Sarangesa purendra (Moore, 1882) is a new addition to the butterfly checklist of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory, India. This species sighted on 02 June 2019, in Dewal area Billawar while observing different pollinators by first author. Now this has now total 309 butterflies

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a dreadful zoonotic neglected disease that affects public health globally. The infection highly endemic in northern India (Kashmir valley). present survey based study was done to know the seroprevalence of cystic among residents north and central Kashmir valley identify risk variables linked this infection. In addition collecting 462 serum samples (244 males 218 fe...