Rift Valley fever

Rift Valley fever

It is a disease caused by a virus that belongs to the genus of viruses that are derived from the animal. It affects animals much more than humans, but can be transmitted to humans even if it is small. And is classified as a serious disease, especially if that hit the animal led to the death of large numbers and huge, and thus has devastating economic effects, and the symptoms appear suddenly in humans, it can spread very quickly among thousands of people.

When this virus was identified

The virus was first identified in 1931 during an outbreak of an outbreak in a ranch in Kenya’s Rift Valley, and was therefore named.

The disease can be identified through its flu-like symptoms to a large extent, and by the huge numbers that die among the animals because of it, and is frequent in the areas of high rainfall and wind, and areas where there are frequent flies, as the disease may be transmitted by flies carrying the virus and the wind helps In transporting infected flies from one place to another.

The disease may spread from animal to human through

1. Direct or indirect contact with the blood or organs of infected animals, such as touching animals’ tissues during slaughter and cutting, while assisting in the birth of animals, during the treatment of diseased animals, or as a result of the removal of carcasses or carcasses.
2. Infection by mosquito bites infected with the disease, or by infected flies.
3. The virus can be transmitted by drinking milk from infected, unpasteurized or non-boiled animals.

It has not been proven that the disease has been transmitted from one person to another, because the disease often appears in the form of flu and the virus is automatically cured.

The duration of incubation of the virus (from infection to onset of symptoms) ranges from two to six days.

Symptoms vary depending on the sex and age of the animals. They range from light to severe, but symptoms often last for 4 to 7 days, but in very few cases the disease may develop into severe cases such as eye disease, meningitis, brain, or hemorrhagic fever.

Treatment of Rift Valley Fever

There is no cure for Rift Valley fever, but prevention is better than a quintile. Therefore, precautions should be taken to prevent this disease, such as boiling milk well before drinking, avoiding areas where flies and mosquitoes multiply. And burial.