Surveillance of livestock could detect rift valley fever disease before human transmission

(PLOS) Occurrence of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) has often been linked with El Ni ñ o rainfall. To curb future outbreaks of RVF, M. Kariuki Njenga and colleagues carried out enhanced syndromic surveillance of 22 high-risk RVF Kenyan counties to collect data on RVF-associated syndromes and risk factors in livestock from November 2015 through February 2016. Their research, recently published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, could provide the first step toward establishing a national syndromic surveillance system for livestock in Kenya.
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