| Rift Valley fever |
an acute, fever-causing viral disease that affects domestic animals (such as cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels) and humans; RVF is most commonly associated with mosquito-borne epidemics during years of heavy rainfall.
출처: www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/glossary.html
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| Rift Valley fever v. |
a virus of the genus Phlebovirus, which is the etiologic agent of Rift Valley fever in domestic animals and humans, first seen in the Rift Valley of Kenya, but now widespread in southern and eastern Africa to Egypt; transmitted by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes, Culex, and Erethmapodites or by contact with tissues and secretions of infected animals.
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