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Opportunities and challenges for countermeasures against Rift Valley fever virus: A quintessential One Health pathogen

Published by Plos.org By Brian E. Dawes, Keli N. Gerken, Bernard Bett, A. Desiree LaBeaud · 17 August 2026 at 17:00
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Opportunities and challenges for countermeasures against Rift Valley fever virus: A quintessential One Health pathogen
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Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic arbovirus transmitted by a wide range of mosquito vectors present across the African continent. RVFV has resulted in large-scale epidemics in East, West, southern, and northern Africa with additional epidemics affe…

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