Dynamics of Rift Valley Fever and Its Recent Epidemic
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The paper "Dynamics of Rift Valley Fever and Its Recent Epidemic" shows that RVF can be transmitted to human beings through aedes mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects such as fleas and ticks, through direct contact with fresh blood of an affected animal.... ... ... ... Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an acute, febrile, viral, arthropod-borne zoonosis that affects ruminant domestic and wild animals such cattle, sheep, goats, camels, African buffalo, dromedaries, white rhinoceroses and waterbucks....