| potential for stable flies and house flies (diptera: muscidae) to transmit rift valley fever virus. | rift valley fever (rvf), a disease of ruminants and humans, has been responsible for large outbreaks in africa that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of human infections and major economic disruption due to loss of livestock and to trade restrictions. as indicated by the rapid spread of west nile viral activity across north america since its discovery in 1999 and the rapid and widespread movement of chikungunya virus from africa throughout the indian ocean islands to asia and europe, an int ... | 2010 | 21290943 |