Rift Valley Fever

Vads Corner - Rift Valley Fever

Information and links on the recent outbreak of Rift Valley fever and haemorrhagic disease in Kenya, Somalia,?Tanzania, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and around the world. This page will be updated when information is available. You are welcome to suggest links or comments related to this site by e-mailing directly to me or mentioning the link in the guestbook. I however have the right to moderate these links. Please read the disclaimer.

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Last updated on 27 January 2001.

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Updates- When available

Communicable Disease Prevention & Control - Current Outbreaks
WHO
- Disease outbreaks reported
  - Rift Valley fever in Yemen - Update 4(26 Oct 2000)
  - Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia - Update 3(25 Oct 2000)
  - Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia - Update 2 (10 Oct 2000)
  - Rift Valley fever in Yemen - Update 3(9 Oct 2000)
  - Rift Valley fever in Yemen - Update 2 (3 Oct 2000)
  - Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia - Update / Acute haemorrhagic fever syndrome in Yemen - Update(29 Sept 2000)
  - Acute haemorrhagic fever syndrome in Yemen (26 Sept 2000)
  - Rift Valley Fever in Saudi Arabia(18 Sept 2000)
- Fact Sheet Rift Valley Fever
- Summary
ProMED-mail electronic conference Query Rift Valley Fever
- Today on ProMED-mail
  - Postings
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (04) (16 Jan 2001)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (15 Jan 2001)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (03) (13 Jan 2001)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (02) (11 Jan 2001)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (7 Jan 2001)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (16) (1 Dec 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (15) (30 Nov 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (09) (26 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Yemen (05) (26 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (11) (25 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (10) (24 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (08) (24 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (07) (22 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (06) (16 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (09) (13 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (08) (11 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (07) (11 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Yemen (04) (11 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (06) (8 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (05) (7 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (04) (6 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Yemen (03) (5 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Yemen (03) (4 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (04) (2 Oct 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (04) (30 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (03) (27 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (02) (26 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Yemen (02) (25 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia & Yemen (25 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (03) (23 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (02) (21 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Yemen (20 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia: WHO confirmation (19 Sept 2000)
    - Rift Valley fever - Saudi Arabia (17 Sept 2000)
Yemen Times
- State of Emergency to Control RVF (2 Oct 2000 - 8 Oct 2000)
- Rift Valley Victim Toll, Soars (25 Sept 2000 - 1 Oct 2000)
- When Will We Learn? (25 Sept 2000 - 1 Oct 2000)
- Rift Valley Fever Fact Sheet

Organisation with additional information

CDC
Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education
- Rift Valley Fever
Rift Valley Fever - Exploring the Environment
Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Kenya and Somalia
Africa South of the Sahara
- Kenya
- Somalia
Ministry of Health Kenya
CDC MMWR, Search "Rift Valley Fever".
- Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever --- Yemen, August--October 2000 Vol 49, No 47;1065 12/01/2000
- Update: Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever --- Saudi Arabia, August--November 2000 Vol 49, No 43;982 11/03/2000
- Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever --- Saudi Arabia, August--October, 2000 Vol 49, No 40;905 10/13/2000
- Rift Valley Fever--East Africa, 1997-1998. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1998 Apr 10;47(13):261-4.
- Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever --- Saudi Arabia, August--October, 2000;October 13, 2000 / 49(40);905-8.
World Organisation for Animal Health - Rift Valley Fever

Other related information

News Online : Read the following newspapers for updates.

Yemen Times
Newspaper RoundUp
Africa News Online - Science and Health - Kenya
AfricaOnline - Nation
Panafrican News Agency - Science & Health
CNN Interactive (Links may not be there)
- Doctors fear spread of deadly Kenyan fever

Worldwide Outbreak Resources

Outbreaks from WHO
OUTBREAK from a WWW site.
ProMED-mail is a creation of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, a project of the Federation of American Scientist.

Pictures

Rift Valley Fever and Arboviruses

Arboviruses
Arboviruses
Arboviruses from "The Virology Page", Australia
Arbovirus africains Clinical and epidemiological data on african arboviruses. French language
Family Bunyaviridae
Family Bunyaviridae
- Genus Phlebovirus
  - Rift Valley fever complex:
    - Arbia virus (ARBV)
      Belterra virus (BELTV)
      Icoaraci virus (ICOV)
      Karimabad virus (KARV)
      Rift Valley fever virus (reference strain Original) (RVFV)
      - [L:X56464]
        [M:M11157]
        [S:X53771]
Arboviral Encephalitis - case definitions from the CDC
The Big Picture Book of Viruses: Bunyaviridae
Global climate changeImpacts of global climate change on human health: : Implications, challenges and mitigation measures. this chapter from the book Spread of infectious diseasea discussion of Rift Valley Fever by Robert E. Shope of the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, contains
Emerging Infectious Diseases a peer reviewed journal
- Remote Sensing and Human Health: New Sensors and New Opportunities Vol 6 No3; March-April 2000
- Rumors of Disease in the Global Village: Outbreak Verification Vol 6 No2; March-April 2000
- New Vectors of Rift Valley Fever in West Africa Vol 4 No2; April-June 1998.

MEDLINE abstracts (NLM PubMed).

Source: National Center For National Biotechnology Information(NCBI). When you read the MEDLINE (NLM PubMed) abstract click on Links: Related Articles.

Effect of environmental temperature on the susceptibility of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) to Rift Valley fever virus. J Med Entomol. 1998 Nov;35(6):918-21.Brubaker J.F et al. [Medline Abstract]
Molecular epidemiology and emergence of Rift Valley fever. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1998 Sep-Oct;93(5):609-14. Sall AA et al. [Medline Abstract]
Rift Valley Fever--East Africa, 1997-1998. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1998 Apr 10;47(13):261-4. No authors listed. [Medline Abstract]
Rift Valley fever virus: a seroepidemiologic study of small terrestrial vertebrates in South Africa. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1997 Dec; 57(6): 693-698. Pretorius A et.al.[Medline Abstract]
Variability of the NS(S) protein among Rift Valley fever virus isolates. J Gen Virol. 1997 Nov; 78( Pt 11): 2853-2858. Sall A et.al [Medline Abstract]
Detection of Rift Valley fever virus in mosquitoes by RT-PCR. Mol Cell Probes. 1997 Feb 1; 11(1): 49-53. Ibrahim MS et.al [Medline Abstract]
Rift Valley fever in Nigeria: infections in humans. Rev Sci Tech. 1996 Sep 1; 15(3): 923-935. Olaleye OD et.al [Medline Abstract]
Epidemiology of hemorrhagic fever viruses. Rev Infect Dis. 1989 May 1; 11 Suppl 4: S730-S735. Review. LeDuc JW [Medline Abstract]
Rift Valley fever virus vaccine trial: study of neutralizing antibody response in humans. Vaccine. 1985 Jun 1; 3(2): 123-127. Niklasson B et.al [Medline Abstract]

Latest available [Medline Abstracts] on Rift Valley Fever.

Virology sites

ALL the Virology on the WWW - The reference site for virology information.
Virus Diseases - Another good site.
WWW Virtual Library, Virology.
Virus databases on-line.
WWW Sites of Interest - another excellent site.
Virology Information - Science.Org,a good reference site.
Molecular Virology
Medical Microbiology Home Page - a comprehensive list of links.
Virus Reference Laboratory

Communicable Disease Control, Surveillance and Other Resources

Emerging Infections Information Network, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,Yale University School of Medicine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Needs no introduction.
Communicable Disease Surveillance Center - UK's "CDC".
CDC MMWR, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
World Health Organisation (WHO).EMC
SatelLife
- AfroNet
Emerging Infectious Diseases a peer reviewed journal.
Infectious Diseases in Children - Journal.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Medecine Sans Frontieres (MSF)
The Web Virtual Library, and its Biosciences & Medicine sections
Directory of Web servers by geographic locations and World Map
Emerging Infectious Diseases Resource Links - CDC.
Medical Dictionaries.
Glossary of Medical, Statistical and Clinical Research Terminology from Health One Homepage a comprehensive health site.

Resource Articles

National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS) a surveillance system used by CDC.
Interstate Shipment of Etiologic Agents from CDC.
Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals.Julia S. Garner, RN, MN, and the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
Globalization, International Law, and Emerging Infectious Diseases by David P. Fidler, J.D. Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 2 .Number 2 April-June 1996.
Emerging and re-emerging viruses - An essay
Glossary of Terms
The Lancet Interactive (Require registration)
- Origin of 1997-98 Rift Valley fever outbreak in East Africa. Lancet. 1998 Nov 14;352(9140):1596-7. by Sall et al.

Medline Search Sites, Medical Journals Site and Search Engines

Medline Search Sites - Do your own search for relevant articles.
Medical Journal Sites - Look up relevant articles.
Search Engines - Search the WWW.
Search Microbiology and Immunology HomePage, Leicester University.
- Microbiology Newsroom
Deja News - Search articles and Newsgroups. Note the information obtained from Newsgroups are not moderated and should be interpreted with caution. Rift Valley Fever

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