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2007-01-19 Africa Horn

Kenyan death toll from Rift Valley Fever rises to 95

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Posted by Steve White 2007-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Note to self, list Rift Valley Fever as a new contagious disease.
Specifics to follow.

Africa, why does God hate it ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-01-19 11:50|| 2007-01-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Rift Valley Fever, per the CDC.

It requires biosafety level 3 facilities to work with. West Nile fever and yellow fever are at the same level.

It mostly affects animals, but can be caught by humans either via mosquitos or can go airborne if infected animals are slaughtered.

There does not appear to be a sex or specific age group more susceptible to the disease amongst populations closely associated with animals such as the nomadic pastoralists, herders and those milking cattle. Where sheep or goats have become infected, cases are suspected to have originated from ritual slaughter, where raw warm flesh is handled and eaten. Apparent differences in attack rates are usually explicable on such a basis.

An important observation from Egypt and elsewhere is that RVF is a rural and semi rural disease and does not cause problems in heavily populated towns and cities. This was notably the case in Egypt, where cases could be found in peri-urban situations but not urban. There was no evidence for the amplification of RVF virus in the urban situations.

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