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MAVS mediates a protective immune response in the brain to Rift Valley fever virus
bioRxiv, 2021 Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a highly pathogenic mosquito-borne virus capable of causing hepatitis, encephalitis, blindness, hemorrhagic syndrome, and death in humans and livestock.
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Rift Valley Fever: a Threat to Pregnant Women Hiding in Plain Sight?
Journal of Virology, 2021 The potential for emerging mosquito-borne viruses to cause fetal infection in pregnant women was overlooked until the Zika fever outbreak several years ago.
Cynthia M. McMillen, A. Hartman
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak, Southern Mauritania, 2012
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 After a period of heavy rainfall, an outbreak of Rift Valley fever occurred in southern Mauritania during September–November 2012. A total of 41 human cases were confirmed, including 13 deaths, and 12 Rift Valley fever virus strains were isolated ...
Abdourahmane Sow +10 more
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Reproducing the Rift Valley fever virus mosquito-lamb-mosquito transmission cycle
Scientific Reports, 2021 Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne bunyavirus that is pathogenic to ruminants and humans. The virus is endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula where outbreaks are characterized by abortion storms and mortality of newborns ...
P. J. Wichgers Schreur +8 more
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in Livestock, Mozambique, 2014
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 In early 2014, abortions and death of ruminants were reported on farms in Maputo and Gaza Provinces, Mozambique. Serologic analysis and quantitative and conventional reverse transcription PCR confirmed the presence of Rift Valley fever virus. The viruses
José M. Fafetine +6 more
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Reanalysis of the 2000 Rift Valley fever outbreak in Southwestern Arabia.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The first documented Rift Valley hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the Arabian Peninsula occurred in northwestern Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia from August 2000 to September 2001.
Compton J Tucker +5 more
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bioRxiv, 2020 Information on zoonotic diseases in humans and livestock are limited in pastoral/agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia. A multi-stage cross sectional cluster design study was implemented with the aim to establish the seroprevalence of zoonotic diseases ...
M. Ibrahim +5 more
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Rift Valley fever and Brucella spp. in ruminants, Somalia
BMC Veterinary Research, 2021 Background Fourteen-years after the last Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV) outbreak, Somalia still suffers from preventable transboundary diseases. The tradition of unheated milk consumption and handling of aborted materials poses a public health risk
A. A. Hassan-Kadle +6 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001 A Rift Valley fever outbreak occurred in Mauritania in 1998. Seroepidemiologic and virologic investigation showed active circulation of the Rift Valley fever virus, with 13 strains isolated, and 16% (range 1.5%-38%) immunoglobulin (Ig) M-positivity in ...
Pierre Nabeth +8 more
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Prevalence of Rift Valley Fever among Ruminants, Mayotte
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Rift Valley fever threatens human and animal health. After a human case was confirmed in Comoros in 2007, 4 serosurveys among ruminants in Mayotte suggested that Rift Valley fever virus had been circulating at low levels since 2004, although no clinical ...
Catherine Cêtre-Sossah +8 more
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