Communications Medicine (Dec 2022)

Reconstructing Mayotte 2018–19 Rift Valley Fever outbreak in humans by combining serological and surveillance data

  • Jonathan Bastard,
  • Guillaume André Durand,
  • Fanny Parenton,
  • Youssouf Hassani,
  • Laure Dommergues,
  • Juliette Paireau,
  • Nathanaël Hozé,
  • Marc Ruello,
  • Gilda Grard,
  • Raphaëlle Métras,
  • Harold Noël

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00230-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Bastard et al. estimate the extent of zoonotic human infections during the 2018–2019 Rift Valley Fever outbreak in Mayotte, France, combining passive surveillance and serological data. Estimating the case reporting fraction shows that syndromic surveillance fails to capture most infections during the epidemic.