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Rift Valley Fever
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Also known as: Rift Valley fever · RVF · Rift Valley virus · phlebovirus · African fever · RVFV · Rift Valley infection · Bunyavirus Rift Valley
Your Body Is Speaking
It begins with fever, aching limbs, a feeling as if your body is burning from within. Rift Valley fever is a severe, mosquito-borne infectious disease that occurs primarily in East Africa — with flu-like symptoms, sometimes visual disturbances, skin bleeding, and in the worst cases encephalitis and organ failure. This is not trivial. This is a state in which your body switches into emergency mode — with a ferocity that requires immediate medical care.
And yet the question BodySignal always asks is worth asking: Why this symptom? Why this fire that burns you down? What is your body showing you when it pulls the emergency brake with such force?
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