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Rift Valley fever
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Outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in Kenya, Somalia and United Republic of Tanzania, December 2006–April 2007
18 May 2007, vol. 82, 20 (pp 169–180)
Rift Valley fever is a viral disease first identified in Kenya in 1931. It occurs in epidemics in animals over a large part of the African continent, and is associated with spontaneous abortions in sheep, goats, cattle, camels and deaths in young animals. It can be transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito or through contact with infected animal material, such as the blood, other body fluids or organs of infected animals. Such contact may occur during the care or slaughtering of infected animals or possibly from the ingestion of raw milk.
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