Prediction of a Rift Valley fever outbreak

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 955-959

  Anyamba, Assaf ^a   Chretien, Jean Paul ^b   Small, Jennifer ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^a   Formenty, Pierre B ^c   Richardson, Jason H ^d   Britch, Seth C ^e   Schnabel, David C ^d   Erickson, Ralph L ^b   Linthicum, Kenneth J ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d U S ARMY   (United States)

^e CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Horn of Africa; Risk mapping; Vegetation index; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EL NINO; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOMALIA; TANZANIA; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION; VIRUS; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; KENYA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RAIN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SOMALIA; TANZANIA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 58949090670     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806490106     Document Type: Article

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