Spatio-temporal variation in prevalence of Rift Valley fever: a post-epidemic serum survey in cattle and wildlife in Kenya

Spatio-temporal variation in prevalence of Rift Valley fever: a post-epidemic serum survey in cattle and wildlife in Kenya

Background: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a fatal arthropod-borne zoonotic disease of livestock and humans. Since the identification of RVF in Kenya in the 1930s, repeated epizootics and epidemics coinciding with El Niño events have occurred in several locations in Africa and Saudi Arabia, causing mass...

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Main Authors: Olivia Wesula Lwande, George Omondi Paul, Patrick I. Chiyo, Eliud Ng’ang’a, Viola Otieno, Vincent Obanda, Magnus Evander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015-12-01
Series:Infection Ecology & Epidemiology
Subjects:
inter-epidemic period
zoonosis
emerging disease
trans-boundary disease
cattle
one-health
Online Access:http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net/index.php/iee/article/view/30106/pdf_46

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