Mara River flowing across the Serengeti Savanna in Tanzania

Rift Valley Fever

Rift Valley Fever

Project 30 Nov 2022
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We are collaborating with colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the Vector and Vector-Borne Diseases Research Institute, Tanzania on our Rift Valley fever virus project. The project aims to understand how peri-urbanisation and crop cultivation may be affecting Rift Valley fever virus transmission

Project objectives:

Generate and validate spatiotemporal predictions of potential vector abundance

Develop mechanistic models of RVFV transmission to identify sources of inter-epizootic transmission and risk to humans

Design and assess integrated control strategies against RVFV epizootics that consider sources of inter-epizootic transmission