Local drivers of Rift Valley fever outbreaks in Mauritania: A one health approach combining ecological, vector, host and livestock movement data.

ABSTRACT: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne zoonotic disease with recurrent epidemic and epizootic outbreaks in Mauritania caused by the RVF virus (RVFV). In recent years, outbreaks have occurred with increasingly shorter inter-epidemic periods. The primary objective of this study was to utilise a high-resolution spatiotemporal model and identify the drivers and ecological suitability for RVFV infections, as well as areas for RVF outbreaks and emergence in humans and animals, respectively, in Mauritania. We used geolocated data from 2019 to 2023 for modelling, including human RVF cases confirmed by viral RNA detection, animal cases identified through serology or viral RNA detection, and mosquito samples in which the virus was detected by RNA analysis. Negative RVFV results were used as absen

SUBMITTER: Barry Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12510638 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature