Occurrence Of Rift Valley Fever And Associated Risk Factors In Cattle In Ijara District, Kenya

NO Owange - 2014 - erepository.uonbi.ac.ke
Ijara district in Kenya was one of the hotspots of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) during the
2006/2007 outbreak which led to human and animal deaths causing huge economic losses …

Factors associated with severe human rift valley fever in sangailu, garissa county, kenya

AD LaBeaud, S Pfeil, S Muiruri, S Dahir… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes acute, often severe,
disease in livestock and humans. To determine the exposure factors and range of symptoms …

[PDF][PDF] Inter-epidemic Rift Valley fever virus infection incidence and risks for zoonotic spillover in northern Tanzania

A Ngonzi, W Glanville, J Nyarobi, T Kibona, J Halliday… - 2022 - dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that has caused epidemics
involving people and animals across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. A number of studies …

Inter–epidemic transmission of rift valley fever virus in Ngorongoro District, Northern Tanzania

AD Mhina - 2016 - repository.costech.or.tz
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes an acute Rift Valley fever (RVF) disease in humans
and domestic ruminants whose occurrence assumes an epidemic pattern in most cases …

High seroconversion rate to Rift Valley fever virus in cattle and goats in far northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the absence of reported outbreaks

C Van den Bergh, EH Venter… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease characterized in
South Africa by large epidemics amongst ruminant livestock at very long, irregular intervals …

Detection of Rift Valley fever virus interepidemic activity in some hotspot areas of Kenya by sentinel animal surveillance, 2009–2012

JK Lichoti, A Kihara, AA Oriko… - Veterinary medicine …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rift Valley fever virus causes an important zoonotic disease of humans and small ruminants
in Eastern Africa and is spread primarily by a mosquito vector. In this region, it occurs as …

Exploring potential risk pathways with high risk groups for urban Rift Valley fever virus introduction, transmission, and persistence in two urban centers of Kenya

KN Gerken, J Maluni, FM Mutuku… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic arbovirus that has profound impact on domestic
ruminants and can also be transmitted to humans via infected animal secretions. Urban …

Characterization of mosquito host-biting networks of potential Rift Valley fever virus vectors in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

TI Makhanthisa, MM Guarido, A Kemp, J Weyer… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic mosquito-borne virus with serious
implications for livestock health, human health, and the economy in Africa, and is suspected …

Co-circulation of Rift Valley fever virus and other zoonotic arboviruses at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

P Thompson, C van Den Bergh, E Venter… - International Journal of …, 2020 - ijidonline.com
Background: The distribution, epidemiology and socio-economic impact of Rift Valley fever
(RVF) virus (RVFV) and other zoonotic mosquito-transmitted viruses are poorly known in sub …

Inter-epidemic transmission of Rift Valley fever in livestock in the Kilombero River Valley, Tanzania: a cross-sectional survey

RD Sumaye, E Geubbels, E Mbeyela… - PLoS Neglected …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background 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 …