Efficacy and cytotoxicity of novel antiviral compounds against Rift Valley Fever Virus [PDF]
, 2016 Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) is a ss-RNA virus from the Bunyaviridae family found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The virus is usually transmitted by mosquitoes and predominantly affects livestock; however, humans exposed to bodily fluids or ...
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DoD-GEIS Rift Valley Fever Monitoring and Prediction System as a Tool for Defense and US Diplomacy [PDF]
, 2011 Over the last 10 years the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) partnering with NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center and USDA's USDA-Center for Medical, Agricultural & Veterinary ...
Anyamba, Assaf +5 more
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Regional Initiatives in Support of Surveillance in East Africa: The East Africa Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) Experience. [PDF]
, 2013 The East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) was formed in response to a growing frequency of cross-border malaria outbreaks in the 1990s and a growing recognition that fragmented disease interventions, coupled with weak laboratory
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Rift Valley Fever Virus: An Overview of the Current Status of Diagnostics
BiomedicinesRift Valley fever is a vector-borne zoonotic disease caused by the Rift Valley fever virus (Phlebovirus genus) listed among the eight pathogens included in the Bluepoint list by the WHO.
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Inter-Epidemic Transmission of Rift Valley Fever in\ud Livestock in the Kilombero River Valley, Tanzania:\ud A Cross-Sectional Survey [PDF]
, 2013 In recent years, evidence of Rift Valley fever (RVF) transmission during inter-epidemic periods in parts of Africa has increasingly been reported. The inter-epidemic transmissions generally pass undetected where there is no surveillance in the livestock ...
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Rift Valley Fever, Mayotte, 2007–2008
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 After the 2006–2007 epidemic wave of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in East Africa and its circulation in the Comoros, laboratory case-finding of RVF was conducted in Mayotte from September 2007 through May 2008.
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A diffusion model to predict spatial and temporal population dynamics of Rift valley fever vectors in Northern Senegal [PDF]
, 2010 We have developed an explicit spatial and temporal model to predict the population dynamics and dispersal of the two main mosquito vector species (Aedes vexans and Culex poicilipes) involved in Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) transmission in Senegal ...
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Rift Valley fever: the Nigerian story [PDF]
Veterinaria Italiana, 2011 Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arthropod-borne zoonotic disease of livestock. It is characterised by fever, salivation, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, mucopurulent to bloody nasal discharge, abortion, rapid decrease in milk production and death in animals ...
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Cattle trade network in Madagascar highlands and Rift Valley fever virus circulation [PDF]
, 2012 In 2008-2009 a RVF outbreak occurred in the Anjozorobe area, a temperate and mountainous area of Madagascar highlands. A serological study conducted there in 2009 showed an IgG seroprevalence rate of 28%.
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Rift Valley Fever Epizootic, Rwanda, 2022
Emerging Infectious DiseasesA Rift Valley fever epizootic affected livestock in Rwanda during March–October 2022. We confirmed 3,112 infections with the virus, including 1,342 cases, 1,254 abortions, and 516 deaths among cattle, goats, and sheep. We recommend a One Health strategy
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