Rift Valley fever, Mayotte, 2007-2008

Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Apr;15(4):568-70. doi: 10.3201/eid1504.081045.

Abstract

After the 2006-2007 epidemic wave of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in East Africa and its circulation in the Comoros, laboratory case-finding of RVF was conducted in Mayotte from September 2007 through May 2008. Ten recent human RVF cases were detected, which confirms the indigenous transmission of RFV virus in Mayotte.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Animals, Domestic / virology
  • Antibodies, Viral / blood
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / transmission
  • Comoros / epidemiology
  • Culicidae / virology
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Disease Reservoirs / virology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Population Surveillance
  • Prospective Studies
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Rift Valley Fever / epidemiology*
  • Rift Valley Fever / transmission
  • Rift Valley fever virus / immunology
  • Rift Valley fever virus / pathogenicity
  • Young Adult
  • Zoonoses / epidemiology
  • Zoonoses / transmission

Substances

  • Antibodies, Viral