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Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean
Rift Valley fever virus (Phlebovirus, Bunyaviridae) is an arbovirus causing intermittent epizootics and sporadic epidemics primarily in East Africa. Infection causes severe and often fatal illness in young sheep, goats and cattle. Domestic animals and humans can be contaminated by close contact with...
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BioMed Central
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848763/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24016237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9716-44-78 |
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author | Balenghien, Thomas Cardinale, Eric Chevalier, Véronique Elissa, Nohal Failloux, Anna-Bella Jean Jose Nipomichene, Thiery Nirina Nicolas, Gaelle Rakotoharinome, Vincent Michel Roger, Matthieu Zumbo, Betty |
author_facet | Balenghien, Thomas Cardinale, Eric Chevalier, Véronique Elissa, Nohal Failloux, Anna-Bella Jean Jose Nipomichene, Thiery Nirina Nicolas, Gaelle Rakotoharinome, Vincent Michel Roger, Matthieu Zumbo, Betty |
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description | Rift Valley fever virus (Phlebovirus, Bunyaviridae) is an arbovirus causing intermittent epizootics and sporadic epidemics primarily in East Africa. Infection causes severe and often fatal illness in young sheep, goats and cattle. Domestic animals and humans can be contaminated by close contact with infectious tissues or through mosquito infectious bites. Rift Valley fever virus was historically restricted to sub-Saharan countries. The probability of Rift Valley fever emerging in virgin areas is likely to be increasing. Its geographical range has extended over the past years. As a recent example, autochthonous cases of Rift Valley fever were recorded in 2007–2008 in Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. It has been proposed that a single infected animal that enters a naive country is sufficient to initiate a major outbreak before Rift Valley fever virus would ever be detected. Unless vaccines are available and widely used to limit its expansion, Rift Valley fever will continue to be a critical issue for human and animal health in the region of the Indian Ocean. |
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spelling | pubmed-38487632013-12-04 Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean Balenghien, Thomas Cardinale, Eric Chevalier, Véronique Elissa, Nohal Failloux, Anna-Bella Jean Jose Nipomichene, Thiery Nirina Nicolas, Gaelle Rakotoharinome, Vincent Michel Roger, Matthieu Zumbo, Betty Vet Res Review Rift Valley fever virus (Phlebovirus, Bunyaviridae) is an arbovirus causing intermittent epizootics and sporadic epidemics primarily in East Africa. Infection causes severe and often fatal illness in young sheep, goats and cattle. Domestic animals and humans can be contaminated by close contact with infectious tissues or through mosquito infectious bites. Rift Valley fever virus was historically restricted to sub-Saharan countries. The probability of Rift Valley fever emerging in virgin areas is likely to be increasing. Its geographical range has extended over the past years. As a recent example, autochthonous cases of Rift Valley fever were recorded in 2007–2008 in Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. It has been proposed that a single infected animal that enters a naive country is sufficient to initiate a major outbreak before Rift Valley fever virus would ever be detected. Unless vaccines are available and widely used to limit its expansion, Rift Valley fever will continue to be a critical issue for human and animal health in the region of the Indian Ocean. BioMed Central 2013 2013-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3848763/ /pubmed/24016237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9716-44-78 Text en Copyright © 2013 Balenghien et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Balenghien, Thomas Cardinale, Eric Chevalier, Véronique Elissa, Nohal Failloux, Anna-Bella Jean Jose Nipomichene, Thiery Nirina Nicolas, Gaelle Rakotoharinome, Vincent Michel Roger, Matthieu Zumbo, Betty Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean |
title | Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean |
title_full | Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean |
title_fullStr | Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean |
title_short | Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean |
title_sort | towards a better understanding of rift valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the indian ocean |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848763/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24016237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9716-44-78 |
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