Patient are asymptomatic or only a mild illness with fever, headache, muscle pains, and liver abnormalities.
< 2% of cases, the illness can progress to hemorrhagic fever syndrome, meningoencephalitis or affect the eye.
People recover within 2-7 days after onset of symptoms.
1% of people with the disease die of it. Those who have bleeding have a chance of death as high as 50%.
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) was originally discovered as the causative agent of an outbreak of ‘enzootic hepatitis’ in 1930 near Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley of Kenya.
The virus is now endemic throughout multiple African countries and the Arabian Peninsula.
Outbreaks of the disease have only occurred in Africa and Arabia. Outbreaks usually occur during periods of increased rain which increase the number of mosquitoes.
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