Epidemiologic and Environmental Risk Factors of Rift Valley Fever in Southern Africa from 2008 to 2011

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 502-511

  Glancey, Margaret M ^a   Anyamba, Assaf ^b   Linthicum, Kenneth J ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Geographic factors; Normalized difference vegetation index data; Rift Valley fever; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BOVINE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GOAT; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SHEEP; SOUTH AFRICA; VEGETATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; CATTLE DISEASES; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP DISEASES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; LIVESTOCK; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 84939419871     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2015.1774     Document Type: Article

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