Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2009)

Rift Valley Fever, Mayotte, 2007–2008

  • Daouda Sissoko,
  • Claude Giry,
  • Philippe Gabrie,
  • Arnaud Tarantola,
  • François Pettinelli,
  • Louis Collet,
  • Eric D’Ortenzio,
  • Philippe Renault,
  • Vincent Pierre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1504.081045
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 4
pp. 568 – 570

Abstract

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After the 2006–2007 epidemic wave of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in East Africa and its circulation in the Comoros, laboratory case-finding of RVF was conducted in Mayotte from September 2007 through May 2008. Ten recent human RVF cases were detected, which confirms the indigenous transmission of RFV virus in Mayotte.

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