Rift Valley fever virus
Virus de la fiebre del valle del Rift
- Date
- 1930-1931 · confidence high
- Place
- Lake Naivasha, Nakuru, Kenya
- Credited to
- R. Daubney, J. R. Hudson and P. C. Garnham
- People
- 👤 Dr J Richard Hudson1904–1990
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Identification of the virus causing miscarriages and mass deaths of lambs on a farm in the Rift, which also made people ill. It is a mosquito-borne arbovirus that causes epidemics linked to extreme rainfall.
What it led to
- surveillance of climate-linked epizootics
- veterinary vaccines
- the concept of an emerging zoonosis in Africa