Only eat well-cooked meat and fish, preferably served hot. Pork, salad and mayonnaise may carry increased risk. Vegetables should be cooked and fruit peeled. A sharp rise in the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis has been observed. Cutaneous leishmaniasis occurs in Rajasthan.
Filariasis is common throughout India and sandfly fever is increasing.
An outbreak of plague occurred in 1994 and was contained by adequate government measures. Tick-borne relapsing fever is reported as is typhus , and outbreaks of haemorrhagic dengue fever have occurred in eastern India. Tick-borne haemorrhagic fever has been reported in the forest areas in Karnataka State. Hepatitis A and E are common. Hepatitis B is endemic.