ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2016
The Epidemiology of Rift Valley Fever in Mayotte: Insights and Perspectives from 11 Years of Data.
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- Paving the way for human vaccination against Rift Valley fever virus: A systematic literature review of RVFV epidemiology from 1999 to 2021.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Pooled it
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- Rift Valley fever: A zoonotic disease with global potential.Open veterinary journal · 2025Review
- Rift Valley fever in West Africa: A zoonotic disease with multiple socio-economic consequences.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
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- Understanding knowledge, attitude and perception of Rift Valley fever in Baringo South, Kenya: A cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Reconstructing Mayotte 2018-19 Rift Valley Fever outbreak in humans by combining serological and surveillance data.Communications medicine · 2022Article
- Modelling the persistence and control of Rift Valley fever virus in a spatially heterogeneous landscape.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Over 100 Years of Rift Valley Fever: A Patchwork of Data on Pathogen Spread and Spillover.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Detection of Rift Valley Fever Virus RNA in Formalin-Fixed Mosquitoes by In Situ Hybridization (RNAscopeViruses · 2021Article
- The role of livestock movements in the spread of Rift Valley fever virus in animals and humans in Mayotte, 2018-19.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
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- Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018-2019 epidemic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- In vitro shared transcriptomic responses of Aedes aegypti to arboviral infections: example of dengue and Rift Valley fever viruses.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Rift Valley Fever: risk of persistence, spread and impact in Mayotte (France).EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2020Article
- Rift Valley Fever Outbreak, Mayotte, France, 2018-2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Article
- The challenging management of Rift Valley Fever in humans: literature review of the clinical disease and algorithm proposal.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2020Review
- External quality assessment of Rift Valley fever diagnosis in 17 veterinary laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.PloS one · 2020Article
- Emerging Threats to Animals in the United Kingdom by Arthropod-Borne Diseases.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic arboviral disease that is a threat to human health, animal health and production, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. RVF virus dynamics have been poorly studied due to data scarcity. On the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, off the Southeastern African coast, RVF has been present since at least 2004. Several retrospective and prospective serological surveys in livestock have been conducted over eleven years (2004-15). These data are collated and presented here. Temporal patterns of seroprevalence were plotted against time, as well as age-stratified seroprevalence. Results suggest that RVF was already present in 2004-07. An epidemic occurred between 2008 and 2010, with IgG and IgM peak annual prevalences of 36% in 2008-09 (N = 142, n = 51, 95% CI [17-55]) and 41% (N = 96, n = 39, 95% CI [25-56]), respectively. The virus seems to be circulating at a low level since 2011, causing few new infections. In 2015, about 95% of the livestock population was susceptible (IgG annual prevalence was 6% (N = 584, n = 29, 95% CI [3-10])). Monthly rainfall varied a lot (2-540mm), whilst average temperature remained high with little variation (about 25-30°C). This large dataset collected on an insular territory for more than 10 years, suggesting a past epidemic and a current inter-epidemic period, represents a unique opportunity to study RVF dynamics. Further data collection and modelling work may be used to test different scenarios of animal imports and rainfall pattern that could explain the observed epidemiological pattern and estimate the likelihood of a potential re-emergence.
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