Rift Valley fever potential, Arabian Peninsula.(Letter to the editor)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Anyamba, Assaf; Chretien, Jean-Paul; El Bushra, Hassan; Formenty, Pierre B.H.; Linthicum, Kenneth J.; Malone, Joseph L.; Martin, Vincent; Small, Jennifer; Tucker, Compton J. | Copyright information

To the Editor: Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus causes severe disease, abortion, and death in domestic animals (especially young sheep, cattle, and goats) in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Humans are infected by mosquitoes, which maintain epizootic transmission, or through exposure to infected animal tissue. Although human disease may be mild, sometimes severe retinitis, meningoencephalitis, or hemorrhagic fever syndromes may develop in patients. In Africa, epizootics and associated...

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