Event information

Learning objectives

Summary of the programme

INTRODUCTION

The eLearning course on Rift Valley Fever is a pre-training preparatory step foreseen within the Crisis Preparedness Training Exercise 2021 being co-organised by EFSA and IZSAM. This asynchronous preliminary self-learning process will provide the participants with the basic-level knowledge about Rift Valley Fever (RVF) disease, together with other relevant documents and it will be followed by a three-days session of in-depth studies and simulation exercises.

Through the eLearning course, a brief history of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) will be presented together with the health and economic implications it has in the areas in which it is present. The main morphological and structural features of the virus will be described as well as its pathogenesis and its resistance to physical and chemical agents. The epidemiology of the disease will be discussed in the third section: the aspects relating specifically to geographic distribution, transmission, receptive hosts, reservoirs, vectors, and the factors that favour its spread will all be addressed.  Following on from this, there will be a detailed review of the signs and the anatomohistopathological lesions that the RVF causes in sheep and goats, cattle, camels and in humans. The fifth section will cover the main diagnostic tools, the illnesses requiring differential diagnosis and the matrices to be sampled in order to make a clinical, anatomohistopathological and laboratory diagnosis. Lastly, the focus will be on prevention and control, with reference to the monitoring methods and control strategies to be adopted in order to limit the spread of RVF.

Section 1: Rift Valley Fever – Presentation and History

1.1  Introduction

1.2  Objective and themes

1.3  Definition and origin

1.4  Human health and economic impact

1.5  Test

1.6  Summary

1.7  Printable version