VHF Flashcards
Fast and furious
Vector yellow fever
Aedes
Vector Zika Virus
Aedes
Vector Chickungunya
Aedes
Transmission Rift Valley Fever
Contact blood/organs infected animal
Less transmission from mosquitos
Theoretical human - human transport
Crimea Congo Haemorrhagic Fever transmission
Hyalmoma ticks
Or contact blood/organs infected animals
Person to person - close contact, blood, organs, other bodily fluid
SFTS transmission (severe fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome)
Ticks
WNV (West Nile Virus) transmission
Culex mosquito
Also transmission bloods and tissues infected animals
?1 case of human to human transmission
Nipah virus transmission
Pigs/bats contamination
Consumption
Human to human transmission possible
Lassa fever spread
Rats Rats Rats
Contact with rat secretions
Person: person contact secretions
Lass fever epidemiology
West Africa
Which VHFs transmit person to person?
Ebola
Marburg
Lassa
Hantaan
CCHF
RVF (theoretically)
Transmission of Hantavirus
Rats excretion
Peson:person