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Volume 8, Number 2, February 2002

Research

An Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98 

Christopher W. Woods,* Adam M. Karpati,* Thomas Grein,† Noel McCarthy,†‡ Peter Gaturuku,§ Eric Muchiri,§ Lee Dunster,¶ Alden Henderson,* Ali S. Khan,* Robert Swanepoel,# Isabelle Bonmarin,‡ Louise Martin,** Philip Mann,†† Bonnie L. Smoak,‡‡ Michael Ryan,** Thomas G. Ksiazek,* Ray R. Arthur,** Andre Ndikuyeze,** Naphtali N. Agata,** Clarence J. Peters,* and the World Health Organization Hemorrhagic Fever Task Force[1]
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †European Program for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Union, Saint-Maurice, France; EPICENTRE, Paris, France; §Kenya Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya ; ¶Kenyan Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; #National Institutes of Virology (NIV), Sandringham, South Africa; **World Health Organization, African Regional Office, Harare, Zimbabwe; ††Médècins Sans Frontieres, Paris, France; ‡‡United States Army Medical Research Unit, Kenya; §§International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland;¶¶Médècins du Monde, Paris, France; ##Africa Medical Research Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya

Figure 1. Images from advanced, very high resolution radiometer instrument on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite comparing normalized difference vegetation index data (as a surrogate for rainfall), from December 1996 (A) and December 1997 (B). Increasing vegetation is depicted from tan to yellow [predominating in part (a)], to light and dark green [predominating in (b)].

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Figure 1. Images from advanced, very high resolution radiometer instrument on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite comparing normalized difference vegetation index data (as a surrogate for rainfall), from December 1996 (A) and December 1997 (B). Increasing vegetation is depicted from tan to yellow [predominating in part (a)], to light and dark green [predominating in (b)].
 


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