Rift Valley fever is a severe disease affecting both humans and animals. The Rift Valley fever virus can be transmitted by body fluids, and the most common way for humans to get infected is from animals. The virus is also vector-borne and can be transmitted by many species of mosquitoes. As with ...
Lindahl, Johanna F.
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Bett, Bernard K.
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Robinson, Timothy P.
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Grace, Delia
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[Rift Valley fever and the changing environment: A case study in East Africa]
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Rift Valley fever and the changing environment: A case study in East Africa
This chapter focuses on the link between livestock and zoonoses in sub-Saharan Africa. The role of poverty, keeping livestock beside or inside houses, low level of agricultural intensification and input use, and eating bushmeat in the emergence and persistence of zoonoses is described. The except...
Grace, Delia
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Bett, Bernard K.
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Hu Suk Lee
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MacMillan, Susan
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[Zoonoses: Blurred lines of emergent disease and ecosystem health]
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Zoonoses: Blurred lines of emergent disease and ecosystem health
Climate change has precipitated tremendous changes in the spatial distribution of multiple infectious diseases, particularly those transmitted by arthropod vectors. In this paper, we investigate the effects of global warming on the distribution of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in East Africa based on t...
Bett, Bernard K.
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Otieno, Fred T.
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Murithi, Faith
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[Climate change and disease dynamics: Predicted changes in ecological niches for Rift Valley fever in East Africa]
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Climate change and disease dynamics: Predicted changes in ecological niches for Rift Valley fever in East Africa
The demand for food and other ecosystem services have risen in the recent past in many parts of the world due to increasing human population. This has promoted agricultural intensification and increased extraction of natural resources particularly in the sub-Saharan Africa where people derive liv...
Bett, Bernard K.
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Ngwili, Nicholas
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Nthiwa, Daniel
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Alonso, Silvia
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[Association between land use change and exposure to zoonotic pathogens–Evidence from selected case studies in Africa]
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Association between land use change and exposure to zoonotic pathogens–Evidence from selected case studies in Africa