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Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
Recent clusters of outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases (Rift Valley fever and chikungunya) in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean islands illustrate how interannual climate variability influences the changing risk patterns of disease outbreaks ...
Assaf Anyamba, Kenneth J Linthicum, Jennifer L Small, Kathrine M Collins, Compton J Tucker, Edwin W Pak, Seth C Britch, James Ronald Eastman, Jorge E Pinzon, Kevin L Russell   +9 more
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Rift Valley fever vaccines [PDF]

Vaccine, 2009
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), which belongs to the genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae, is a negative-stranded RNA virus carrying a tripartite RNA genome. RVFV is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes large outbreaks among ruminants and humans in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Tetsuro, Ikegami, Shinji, Makino
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Prevalence and associated factors of human haemorrhagic fevers in Senegal: a comprehensive analysis of Hantaan, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever and Rift Valley fever [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionViral haemorrhagic fevers such as Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, and hantavirus disease continue to threaten public health in Africa.
Maryam Diarra, Safietou Sankhe, Mamadou Aliou Barry, Fatoumata Diene Sarr, Mamadou Korka Kindy Diallo, Joseph Faye, Mame Astou Gassama, Maimouna Mbanne, Ousmane Faye, Cheikh Talla, Robab Katani, Keersten Ricks, Moussa Moise Diagne, Jessica Radzio-Basu, Cheikh Loucoubar   +14 more
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Experimental Infection of Calves by Two Genetically-Distinct Strains of Rift Valley Fever Virus [PDF]

Viruses, 2016
Recent outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in ruminant livestock, characterized by mass abortion and high mortality rates in neonates, have raised international interest in improving vaccine control strategies.
William C. Wilson, A. Sally Davis, Natasha N. Gaudreault, Bonto Faburay, Jessie D. Trujillo, Vinay Shivanna, Sun Young Sunwoo, Aaron Balogh, Abaineh Endalew, Wenjun Ma, Barbara S. Drolet, Mark G. Ruder, Igor Morozov, D. Scott McVey, Juergen A. Richt   +14 more
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Rift Valley Fever [PDF]

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2017
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a severe veterinary disease of livestock that also causes moderate to severe illness in people. The life cycle of RVF is complex and involves mosquitoes, livestock, people, and the environment. RVF virus is transmitted from either mosquitoes or farm animals to humans, but is generally not transmitted from person to person ...
Rim Kahloun, Imen Ksiaa, Sonia Zaouali
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak during COVID-19 Surge, Uganda, 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Rift Valley fever, endemic or emerging throughout most of Africa, causes considerable risk to human and animal health. We report 7 confirmed Rift Valley fever cases, 1 fatal, in Kiruhura District, Uganda, during 2021.
Caitlin M. Cossaboom, Luke Nyakarahuka, Sophia Mulei, Jackson Kyondo, Alex Tumusiime, Jimmy Baluku, Gloria Grace Akurut, Dianah Namanya, Kilama Kamugisha, Hildah Tendo Nansikombi, Alex Nyabakira, Semei Mutesasira, Shannon Whitmer, Carson Telford, Julius Lutwama, Stephen Balinandi, Joel Montgomery, John D. Klena, Trevor Shoemaker   +18 more
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Rift Valley Fever [PDF]

, 2020
Rift Valley fever is an epizootic acute febrile illness primarily affecting domesticated sheep and cattle, with the capacity to infect humans, caused by Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus, an arthropod-borne phlebovirus in the Bunyaviridae family. It is transmitted via contact with body fluids of infected livestock or, less commonly, bites by infected ...
A. Parikh, M. Amare, I.-M. Vilcins, C. Storme, P. Scott, K. Modjarrad   +5 more
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A Spatial Analysis of Rift Valley Fever Virus Seropositivity in Domestic Ruminants in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2015
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an acute arthropod-borne viral zoonotic disease primarily occurring in Africa. Since RVF-like disease was reported in Tanzania in 1930, outbreaks of the disease have been reported mainly from the eastern ecosystem of the Great ...
A Adam, A Anyamba, A Evans, A Zaki, AI Al-Afaleq, AM Gad, AS Kamal, B Ahmed, B Niklasson, B Niklasson, BN Archer, C Sindato, C Sindato, Calvin Sindato, CK Morley, CW Woods, D Balk, D Sissoko, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, EG Kifaro, EM Jeanmaire, ES Swai, Esron D. Karimuribo, FA Murphy, FG Davies, FG Davies, HH Balkhy, HH Balkhy, IE Aradaib, J Fafetine, Janusz T. Paweska, JT Paweska, JT Paweska, JT Paweska, JT Paweska, KJ Linthicum, KJ Linthicum, KM Rich, Leonard E. G. Mboera, Mark M. Rweyemamu, N Heinrich, P Munyua, R Daubney, R Swanepoel, RD Fyumagwa, RD Sumaye, S Abdo-Salem, T Jocelyn, T Shoemaker, Tetsuro Ikegami, V Martin, X Chen, X Pourrut, Y Thiongane   +53 more
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Selected wetland soil properties correlate to Rift Valley fever livestock mortalities reported in 2009-10 in central South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Outbreaks of Rift Valley fever have devastating impacts on ruminants, humans, as well as on regional and national economies. Although numerous studies on the impact and outbreak of Rift Valley fever exist, relatively little is known about the role of ...
Anna M Verster, Janice E Liang, Melinda K Rostal, Alan Kemp, Robert F Brand, Assaf Anyamba, Claudia Cordel, Robert Schall, Herman Zwiegers, Janusz T Paweska, William B Karesh, Cornie W van Huyssteen   +11 more
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Seroprevalence of alphavirus antibodies in a cross-sectional study in southwestern Tanzania suggests endemic circulation of chikungunya. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
BACKGROUND: To date, Alphavirus infections and their most prominent member, chikungunya fever, a viral disease which first became apparent in Tanzania in 1953, have been very little investigated in regions without epidemic occurrence.
Nina Weller, Petra Clowes, Gerhard Dobler, Elmar Saathoff, Inge Kroidl, Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, Leonard Maboko, Thomas Löscher, Michael Hoelscher, Norbert Heinrich   +9 more
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