Key facts
- Specialty
- Infectious diseases , veterinary medicine
- Symptoms
- Fever , muscle pains , headaches
- Complications
- Loss of sight, confusion , bleeding, liver problems
- Duration
- Up to a week
- Causes
- Phlebovirus spread by an infected animal or mosquito
- Diagnostic method
- Finding antibodies or the virus in the blood
- Prevention
- Vaccinating animals against the disease, decreasing mosquito bites
- Treatment
- Supportive care
- Frequency
- Outbreaks in Africa and Arabia
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
2,812 papersvia PubMed
Article · 中文
裂谷熱（英語：Rift Valley fever）又稱作里夫谷熱，是一種由病毒引起的人畜共通病，它的症狀程度從輕微到嚴重都有。輕微的症狀包括：發燒、肌肉疼痛、以及頭痛（常持續數天到一週）；嚴重的症狀則有：失明（通常在感染三週後發生）、腦部感染引起劇烈的頭痛與、以及伴隨肝功能異常的出血（可能在最初幾天出現）。有出血症狀的患者的死亡率高達50%。
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