PRO/AH/EDR> Rift Valley fever – South Africa (02): animal, preventive vaccination

Rift Valley Fever — South Africa
Following a warning issued by Kenya authorities of a possible Rift Valley fever (RVF), animal health company, Afrivet has urged the South African agricultural sector to sound a clarion to deliver vaccination to agriculture livestock.
According to Peter Oberem, Afrivet CEO, 250 sheep died in May [2018] of Rift Valley fever on a farm in Jacobsdal in the Free State [see http://promedmail.org/post/20180517.5799859].
“Reported cases so late in the season — it is already winter in the