Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2020)

Unique Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan, 2019

  • Ayman Ahmed,
  • Yousif Ali,
  • Adel Elduma,
  • Mawahib Hassan Eldigail,
  • Rehab Abdallah Mhmoud,
  • Nouh Saad Mohamed,
  • Thomas G. Ksiazek,
  • Isabelle Dietrich,
  • Scott C. Weaver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2612.201599
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 12
pp. 3030 – 3033

Abstract

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We report a unique outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the Eldamar area, Sudan, May–July 2019, that resulted in 1,129 case-patients and 19 (1.7%) deaths. Patients exhibited clinical signs including fever (100%), headache (79%), and bleeding (4%). Most (98%) patients also reported death and abortions among their livestock.

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