Rift Valley fever: still an emerging infection after 3500 years.

Carl V Smith,Ali S Khan

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30240-6

Carl V Smith, Ali S Khan

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https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30240-6

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Abstract

Rift Valley fever: still an emerging infection after 3500 years.

Highlights

In the Book of Exodus, the description of the fifth plague of Egypt evokes a high mortality epizootic disease affecting livestock such as camels, goats, and sheep
Rift Valley fever is mainly a disease of animals with enzootic and epizoonotic mosquito-borne transmission cycles associated with corresponding endemic and epidemic disease in human beings based on a complex set of relationships between domesticated animals, the vectors, human behaviours, local ecology, and climate
The disease has never been associated with person-to-person transmission including the reassuring lack of nosocomial infections even among health-care workers tending to patients with haemorrhagic fever

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Introduction

In the Book of Exodus, the description of the fifth plague of Egypt evokes a high mortality epizootic disease affecting livestock such as camels, goats, and sheep. Rift Valley fever is mainly a disease of animals with enzootic and epizoonotic mosquito-borne transmission cycles associated with corresponding endemic and epidemic disease in human beings based on a complex set of relationships between domesticated animals, the vectors, human behaviours, local ecology, and climate.

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