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1. Rift Valley Fever Virus Seroprevalence among Humans, Northern KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 2018-2019.

Author

Pawęska, Janusz T., Msimang, Veerle, Kgaladi, Joe, Hellferscee, Orienka, Weyer, Jacqueline, van Vuren, Petrus Jansen, and Jansen van Vuren, Petrus

Subjects
*RIFT Valley fever, *SEROPREVALENCE, *COASTAL plains, *ENDEMIC diseases, *IMMUNOGLOBULIN G, *RESEARCH, *ANIMAL experimentation, *RESEARCH methodology, *MEDICAL cooperation, *EVALUATION research, *COMPARATIVE studies, *ARBOVIRUS diseases, *RESEARCH funding, *RNA viruses, *VIRAL antibodies, *EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research
Abstract

We detected Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) IgM and IgG in human serum samples collected during 2018-2019 in northern KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Our results show recent RVFV circulation and likely RVFV endemicity in this tropical coastal plain region of South Africa in the absence of apparent clinical disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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2. Convergence of Humans, Bats, Trees, and Culture in Nipah Virus Transmission, Bangladesh.

Author

Gurley, Emily S., Hegde, Sonia T., Hossain, Kamal, Sazzad, Hossain M. S., Hossain, M. Jahangir, Rahman, Mahmudur, Sharker, M. A. Yushuf, Salje, Henrik, Islam, M. Saiful, Epstein, Jonathan H., Khan, Salah U., Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Daszak, Peter, and Luby, Stephen P.

Subjects
*ZOONOSES, *NIPAH virus, *ENCEPHALITIS, *SAP (Plant), *HEALTH risk assessment, *BATS as carriers of disease, *PUBLIC health, *INFECTIOUS disease transmission, *ANIMAL experimentation, *BATS, *COMPARATIVE studies, *EPIDEMICS, *FOOD habits, *RESEARCH methodology, *MEDICAL cooperation, *PARAMYXOVIRUSES, *PLANTS, *RESEARCH, *RESEARCH funding, *RURAL population, *EVALUATION research, *RELATIVE medical risk, *CASE-control method, *RNA virus infections, *PHYSIOLOGY
Abstract

Preventing emergence of new zoonotic viruses depends on understanding determinants for human risk. Nipah virus (NiV) is a lethal zoonotic pathogen that has spilled over from bats into human populations, with limited person-to-person transmission. We examined ecologic and human behavioral drivers of geographic variation for risk of NiV infection in Bangladesh. We visited 60 villages during 2011-2013 where cases of infection with NiV were identified and 147 control villages. We compared case villages with control villages for most likely drivers for risk of infection, including number of bats, persons, and date palm sap trees, and human date palm sap consumption behavior. Case villages were similar to control villages in many ways, including number of bats, persons, and date palm sap trees, but had a higher proportion of households in which someone drank sap. Reducing human consumption of sap could reduce virus transmission and risk for emergence of a more highly transmissible NiV strain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2017
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