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Experts Warn Against Raw Milk Following Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in Kenya

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Pima further suggested that people should also stop drinking raw milk as that could lead to mass infection of the deadly R V F.

'They are supposed also to sleep under mosquito nets during the night as the viral responsible for the infections are usually transmitted from livestock to humans by mosquitoes, just like malaria,' he stressed.

So far an outbreak of RVF has killed nearly 80 people in neighboring Kenya over the past four weeks, Nairobi's health officials said early last week, as authorities started vaccinating at least a million livestock in the affected regions.

The disease has infected around 200 people in Kenya since it was first reported late December last year and has continued to spread across several districts in the country.

A death toll of 75 has been registered in four districts – Garissa, Ijara, Tana River and Wajir, while another five deaths have been reported in the coastal Kilifi district, bringing the accounted toll to 75, Omar Ahmed, the medical services chief in the Kenya's worst-hit north-eastern Province was quoted as saying.

More people were reportedly being admitted to hospitals with the viral disease, which is usually transmitted from livestock to humans by mosquitoes – mainly during and after flooding.

However some epidemiological reports suggest the drinking of raw milk from infected animals could be the main route of infection.

The connection with flooding results from mosquito eggs that are buried in soil and hatch when washed over by flood waters. The last major outbreak of RVF in East African region was recorded in 1997 where 27,500 people were infected and 170 out of them died.

The Rift Valley Fever, which was first detected in the 1930s in South Africa, affects livestock such as cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels as well as human beings.

Experts believe that the mosquito-borne pathog
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