Descriptive and spatial epidemiology of Rift valley fever outbreak in Yemen 2000-2001

Abdo-Salem Shaïf, Gerbier Guillaume, Bonnet Pascal, Al-Qadasi Mohamed, Tran Annelise, Al-Eryani Ghalib, Roger François. 2006. Descriptive and spatial epidemiology of Rift valley fever outbreak in Yemen 2000-2001. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1081 : 240-242. Biennial Conference of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine. 8, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 26 Juin 2005/1 Juillet 2005.

https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1373.028

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Résumé : Rift valley fever (RVF) is an arboviral disease produced by a bunyavirus belonging to the genus Phlebovirus. Several species of Aedes and Culex are the vectors of this virus that affects sheep, goats, buffalos, cattle, camels and human beings. The human disease is well known, especially during periods of intense epizootic activity. The initial description of the disease dates back to 1930, when animals and human outbreaks appeared on a farm in Lake Naivasha, in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. Until 2000, this disease was only described in Africa, and then outbreaks were also declared in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2000-2001 and 2004) and in Yemen (2000-2001). Animal and human cases were recorded. This work presents a retrospective summary of the data collected on animal RVF cases during this epidemic in Yemen. Results from several RVF surveys were gathered from the Yemeni vet services and FAO experts. Geographical data (topographic maps and data freely available on internet) were used for the location of outbreaks. After cleaning and standardization of location names, all the data were introduced into a GIS database. The spatial distribution of outbreaks was then studied at two scales: at the national level and at a local scale in the particular area of Wadi Mawr in the Tihama plain, Western coast of Yemen.

Classification Agris : L73 - Maladies des animaux

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 4 (2005-2013) - Santé animale et maladies émergentes

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