Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2021)

Rift Valley Fever Virus Seroprevalence among Humans, Northern KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 2018–2019

  • Janusz T. Pawęska,
  • Veerle Msimang,
  • Joe Kgaladi,
  • Orienka Hellferscee,
  • Jacqueline Weyer,
  • Petrus Jansen van Vuren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2712.210643
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 12
pp. 3159 – 3162

Abstract

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We detected Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) IgM and IgG in human serum samples collected during 2018–2019 in northern KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Our results show recent RVFV circulation and likely RVFV endemicity in this tropical coastal plain region of South Africa in the absence of apparent clinical disease.

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