COMBINING HYDROLOGY AND MOSQUITO POPULATION MODELS TO IDENTIFY THE DRIVERS OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER EMERGENCE IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF WEST AFRICA.

Combining hydrology and mosquito population models to identify the drivers of Rift Valley fever emergence in semi-arid regions of West Africa.

BackgroundRift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral zoonosis of increasing global importance.RVF virus (RVFV) is transmitted either through exposure to infected animals or through bites from different species of infected mosquitoes, mainly of Aedes and Culex genera.These mosquitoes are very sensitive Board Game to environmental conditions, wh

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Reconciling model predictions with low reported cases of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Madagascar

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc globally with particular concerns for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where models suggest that the majority of the population will become infected.Conventional wisdom suggests that the continent will bear a higher burden of COVID-19 for the same reasons it suffers from other infectious diseases: ecology, socio-economic conditi

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