Rift Valley feverAn arthropod-borne (primarily mosquito), acute, febrile, viral disease of humans and numerous speci…Mebus, Charles A
Rift valley, any elongated trough formed by the subsidence of a segment of the Earth’s crust between dip-slip, or normal, faults. Such a fault is a fracture in the terrestrial surface in which the rock material on the upper side of the fault plane has b
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In subject area: Immunology and Microbiology Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease caused by Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), which is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, but has spread to Egypt, Madagascar, the Comoros, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. ...
Rift Valley fever virus, genus Phlebovirus, is endemic to the African continent and causes large epizootics involving sheep, goats, cattle, horses, camels, numerous wildlife species, and humans.400 In recent years, Rift Valley fever virus has jumped international borders into the Middle East and ...
What is a Rift Valley? To define the term rift valley, it is simple to find the independent meaning of the two words that make up this geographical term. The word rift can mean that there is some type of fault (crack or break) within an entity. A valley is a type of landform that...
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease caused by a member of the Bunyavirales family causing severe infections in humans. The RVF virus is an enveloped, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that can infect both animals and humans. The symptoms associated with these infections span fr...
especially in the Rift Valley of Awash River Basin. Awash River water plays an important role in the socioeconomic and ecological activities [1] of pastoral and agropastorals in the basin. The basin faces water shortage for irrigation and household activities during the dry season and faces floo...
The origins of all major living reptile clades, including the one leading to birds, lie in the Triassic. Following the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history at the end of the Permian, the earliest definite members of the three major living reptile
We filled this gap by building a more comprehensive picture of the dynamics of acculturation in the Rift Valley. This is particularly, so because Rift Valley has witnessed deep-seated ethnic intolerance between internal migrants and their hosts. We used a survey-based vignette experiment to assess...