An unusually long Rift valley fever inter-epizootic period in Zambia: Evidence for enzootic virus circulation and risk for disease outbreak.

• Main Authors: Herman M Chambaro (Author), Kazuyo Hirose (Author), Michihito Sasaki (Author), Brigadier Libanda (Author), Yona Sinkala (Author), Paul Fandamu (Author), Walter Muleya (Author), Fredrick Banda (Author), Joseph Chizimu (Author), David Squarre (Author), Misheck Shawa (Author), Yongjin Qiu (Author), Hayato Harima (Author), Yuki Eshita (Author), Edgar Simulundu (Author), Hirofumi Sawa (Author), Yasuko Orba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Rift valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne disease of animals and humans. Although RVF outbreaks are usually reported at 5-15-year intervals in sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia has experienced an unusually long inter-epizootic/-epidemic period of more than three decades. However, serological evidence of...