Lessons from the 2006-2007 Rift Valley fever outbreak in East Africa: Implications for prevention of emerging infectious diseases

Future Virology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 411-417

  Breiman, Robert F ^a   Njenga, M Kariuki ^a   Cleaveland, Sarah ^b   Sharif, S K ^c   Mbabu, Murithi ^d   King, Lonnie ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

^d Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AFRICA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; TANZANIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 55849118491     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460794.3.5.411     Document Type: Editorial

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