Domestic transmission of Rift Valley Fever virus in Diawara (Senegal) in 1998.
In 1998, circulation of the Rift Valley Fever (RVF) virus was revealed in Diawara by detection of IgM antibodies in sheep and isolation of the virus from mosquitoes caught outside a village. A seroprevalence study was carried out. Finger-prick blood samples, individual and collective details were obtained. One thousand five hundred twenty people (6 months - 83 years) were included. Overall prevalence in this group was approximately 5.2%. The prevalence in infants (6 months - 2 years) was 8.5%. Age, gender, contact with a pond, presence of sheep, and abortion among sheep, and individual or collective travel history were not statistically associated with prevalence. Prevalence increased significantly when the distance to a small ravine, located in the middle of the village, decreased. The results suggest a low, recent, not endemic circulation of the virus. Culex quinquefasciatus was captured near the ravine. This mosquito, similar to Culex pipiens, can play a similar role in human-to-human transmission of the RVF virus.
Marrama
Laurence
L
Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Dakar. marrama@pasteur.sn
Spiegel
André
A
Ndiaye
Kader
K
Sall
Amadou A
AA
Gomes
Eugénia
E
Diallo
Mawlouth
M
Thiongane
Yaya
Y
Mathiot
Christian
C
Gonzalez
Jean Paul
JP
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003465:Culex; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007303:Insect Vectors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012295:Rift Valley Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D012296:Rift Valley fever virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012675:Senegal / Q000453:epidemiology; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012756:Sheep
D000914:Antibodies, Viral