Widening geographic range of Rift Valley fever disease clusters associated with climate change in East Africa.
Silvia SitumaLuke NyakarahukaEvans OmondiMarianne MureithiMarshal Mutinda MweuMatthew MuturiAthman MwatondoJeanette DawaLimbaso KonongoiSamoel KhamadiErin ClanceyEric LofgrenEric OsoroIsaac NgereRobert F BreimanBarnabas BakamutumahoAllan MurutaJohn GachohiSamuel O OyolaM Kariuki NjengaDeepti SinghPublished in: BMJ global health (2024)
These findings demonstrate the changing epidemiology of RVF disease. The widening geographic range of disease is associated with climatic variations, with the likely impact of wider dispersal of virus to new areas of endemicity and future epidemics.