Epi
What Rift Valley Fever Teaches Us About Hidden Epidemics
In 2007, Kenya faced a Rift Valley fever (RVF) epidemic so severe it drained $32 million from its economy. Four years later, South Africa’s sheep industry lost nearly $14 million to the same disease. For decades, scientists explained these outbreaks through a neat, if chilling, story: infected mosquito eggs lie dormant during dry spells, then […]
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