The rift valley fever : could re-emerge in Egypt again?
Joint Authors
al-Bahnasawi, Mamduh M.
Mujahid, Layla Abd al-Mawla
Salih, Halah Ahmad Abd Allah
Mursi, Tusun Ali
Source
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Issue
Vol. 43, Issue 1 (30 Apr. 2013), pp.41-56, 16 p.
Publisher
The Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Publication Date
2013-04-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
16
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
The Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a neglected, emerging, mosquito-borne disease with severe negative impact on human and animal health and economy.
RVF is caused by RVF virus of the family of Bunyaviridae, genus Phlebovirus.
RVF is an acute, febrile disease affecting humans and a wide range of animals.
The virus is trans-mitted through the bites from mosquitoes and exposure to viremic blood, body fluids, or contact with tissues of infected animals or by inhaling natural virus aerosols, also possibly by consumption of infected unpasteurized milk.
The RVF-virus replicate at the site introduction and in local lymphatic followed by viremia and spread to other organs as the liver and central nervous system, causing the hepatic necrosis and eosinophilia cytoplasmic degeneration.
The main signs and symptoms are fever, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, photophobia, bradycardia, conjunctivitis and flushing face.
Main complications include jaundice, hemorrhagic, meningoencephalitis and retinal lesions.
Generally speaking, in the21stCentury, the vector-borne infectious diseases, was accepted as the disaster issues with the considerable significant morbidity and mortality.
These facts should be considered by the public health, veterinary and agricultural authorities
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Bahnasawi, Mamduh M.& Mujahid, Layla Abd al-Mawla& Salih, Halah Ahmad Abd Allah& Mursi, Tusun Ali. 2013. The rift valley fever : could re-emerge in Egypt again?. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology،Vol. 43, no. 1, pp.41-56.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Bahnasawi, Mamduh M.…[et al.]. The rift valley fever : could re-emerge in Egypt again?. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology Vol. 43, no. 1 (Apr. 2013), pp.41-56.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-347008
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Bahnasawi, Mamduh M.& Mujahid, Layla Abd al-Mawla& Salih, Halah Ahmad Abd Allah& Mursi, Tusun Ali. The rift valley fever : could re-emerge in Egypt again?. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 2013. Vol. 43, no. 1, pp.41-56.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-347008
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 53-56
Record ID
BIM-347008