Hoping to prevent another epidemic, scientists are working on Rift Valley fever. The Zika virus epidemic of 2015 resulted in thousands of Brazilian babies being born with severe brain defects ...

Health control measures alone could be ineffective in the long term fight against the deadly Rift Valley fever which affects both humans and animals, a new study in the journal PNAS reports.

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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 3, 2011) -- The Army has paired with industry to develop a diagnostic device to detect the presence of the Rift Valley fever virus in mosquitoes. The Military ...

The mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus has been linked to miscarriage in humans. A study of 130 pregnant Sudanese women with fever showed that the risk of miscarriage was seven times greater ...

University of Texas Medical Branch researchers have significantly improved an existing experimental vaccine for Rift Valley fever virus ... impossible for them to map the epidemic's spread ...

In northeastern Kenya, vaccinations have begun to try to stop the spread of Rift Valley Fever among livestock. South Africa is reported to have sent as many as 450-thousand doses of the vaccine.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and elsewhere are reporting the development of two genetically engineered vaccines to combat the mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever, devastating to ...