Publication Date:
1999-07-20
Description:
All known Rift Valley fever virus outbreaks in East Africa from 1950 to May 1998, and probably earlier, followed periods of abnormally high rainfall. Analysis of this record and Pacific and Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies, coupled with satellite normalized difference vegetation index data, shows that prediction of Rift Valley fever outbreaks may be made up to 5 months in advance of outbreaks in East Africa. Concurrent near-real-time monitoring with satellite normalized difference vegetation data may identify actual affected areas.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Linthicum, K J -- Anyamba, A -- Tucker, C J -- Kelley, P W -- Myers, M F -- Peters, C J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 16;285(5426):397-400.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections System, Division of Preventive Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307-5100, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10411500" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Climate
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*Disease Outbreaks
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*Forecasting
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Humans
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Kenya/epidemiology
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Oceans and Seas
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Pacific Ocean
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Rain
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Rift Valley Fever/*epidemiology/prevention & control/veterinary
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Temperature
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*Weather
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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