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[[File:RVF 2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Straw coloured exudate and extravasated blood in abdomen in sheep with rift valley fever]]
 
[[File:RVF 2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Straw coloured exudate and extravasated blood in abdomen in sheep with rift valley fever]]
 
[[File:RVF 3.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Oedematous foetus in abortion due to Rift Valley Fever]]
 
[[File:RVF 3.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Oedematous foetus in abortion due to Rift Valley Fever]]
Rift Valley Fever is a '''[[Viruses |viral]] disease''' caused by a bunyavirus. It infects cattle, sheep, goats, camels and people.
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Rift Valley Fever is a '''[[Viruses |viral]] disease''' caused by a [[:Category:Bunyaviridae|bunyavirus]]. It infects cattle, sheep, goats, camels and people.
    
RVF causes significant '''economic losses in Africa''', both directly through its clinical cases and also as an obstruction to the improvement of breeding stock due to the susceptibility of most imported livestock breeds into endemic areas.
 
RVF causes significant '''economic losses in Africa''', both directly through its clinical cases and also as an obstruction to the improvement of breeding stock due to the susceptibility of most imported livestock breeds into endemic areas.
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[[Category:Reproductive Diseases - Cattle]][[Category:Reproductive Diseases - Sheep]][[Category:Reproductive Diseases - Goat]]
 
[[Category:Reproductive Diseases - Cattle]][[Category:Reproductive Diseases - Sheep]][[Category:Reproductive Diseases - Goat]]
 
[[Category:Alimentary Diseases - Goat]][[Category:Alimentary Diseases - Sheep]][[Category:Alimentary Diseases - Cattle]]
 
[[Category:Alimentary Diseases - Goat]][[Category:Alimentary Diseases - Sheep]][[Category:Alimentary Diseases - Cattle]]
[[Category:Viral Organisms]]
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[[Category:Bunyaviridae]]
 
[[Category:CABI Expert Review]]
 
[[Category:CABI Expert Review]]
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