Abstract
Rift Valley Fever in Ruminants, Republic of Comoros, 2009
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Infections by Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV) in ruminants cause massive abortions in livestock and high death rates in young animals, which result in major economic consequences
A total of 488 blood samples were collected from randomly selected sheep, goats, and horned cattle and sent to laboratory facilities in Mayotte to be tested by an RVFV immunoglobulin (Ig) G competitive ELISA [3]
Summary
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. Infections by RVF virus (RVFV) in ruminants cause massive abortions in livestock and high death rates in young animals, which result in major economic consequences. Because of low meat production (only 20,000 head of local cattle), a large number of live ruminants enter Grande Comore from Anjouan and Mohéli, the other 2 islands of the Republic, from Madagascar and Tanzania without quarantine or any other preliminary veterinary control.
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