Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an endemic vector-borne zoonotic disease that represents a threat to human health, animal health and livestock production in the eastern Africa region. The epidemiology of RVF is complex, making monitoring of RVF risk and carrying out efficient and timely control measures challenging. To increase knowledge on RVF epidemiology and inform disease management policies, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed and maintains a web-based RVF Early Warning Decision Support Tool (RVF DST) for near real-time RVF forecasting based on precipitation and vegetation anomalies, among other environmental factors. To this end, FAO, in partnership with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), has been alerting the countries in the region through joint alert messages about the increased risk and what needs to be done to mitigate the risk. ……More on link
