RIFT Valley Fever

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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arthropod-borne viral disease primarily causing epizootics of abortion and high mortality in domestic animals during which humans become infected. The first reliable description 1 of a clinical disease similar to RVF was in 1912—1913 by Montgomery and Stordy. They described an epizootic of a disease which was highly fatal in lambs and occurred near Lake Naivasha in Kenya. However, it was not until the 1930—1931 epizootic in this same area of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya that Daubney et al. 1 studied the disease in detail and definitively established that RVF was caused by a viral agent transmissible to sheep, laboratory animals, and man. This classic report provided a thorough description of the clinical disease in domestic animals and man, and provided evidence suggesting that the disease was vector-borne, a fact later proven by Smithburn et al. 2

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