Rift Valley Fever; knocked down the
economic backbone of the country.
By Ali Ismael Mohamed –Puntland
Rift Valley Fever is an acute disorder or febrile illness of
livestock: sheep, goats and
camels. It is found mainly in east African countries (Sudan,
Kenya and Uganda).
The
factor that transmits the disease is culex mosquito in east
Africa and Aedes Mosquito
in
parts of Southern African countries respectively.
Following an incubation period of 3-6days, the patient has an
acute febrile illness that is
difficult to distinguish clinically from other viral fevers.
Complications are indicative of severe infection and include
retinopathy, meningo-
encephalitis, hemorrhagic manifestations and hepatic necrosis.
Mortality approaches
50
percent in severe forms of the illness. Treatment is
symptomatic.
As
the name implies the disease is first seen in rift valley then
it spread through eastern
and
southern African countries. Most of Al-khaleej countries warned
not to import the
Somali livestock, when they heard the disease is seen in some
kinds of Somalian
livestock.
This is not true because Somalia couldn’t be found the factor
that transmits the disease.
Somalia is not included geographically the countries that were
isolated the virus.
The
Virus is animal and human host, and still there is no evidence
showing that the virus
is
confirmed nor really exists its disease in Somalia. It is
possible to find some infected
animals which are imported from the neighbors through the
border.
This hypothesis affected and demolished the economic backbone of
the country. As the
livestock is the only capital and asset of the country, if it’s
suspended permanently from
the
country it will completely destroy the economic and the country
will became
separated from the rest of the world.
The
suspension of economic backbone means to continue hunger,
disease, fighting,
illiterate and instability of the region. It is not fair to
destroy the only economic backbone
remained for the country that suffering more than sixteen years
of civil wars, droughts,
diseases and instability.
This, who will benefit it,? What is the interest to the
international community beyond this episode?
These questions are to be asked whenever we are analyzing the
root problem and
economic failure of the country.
This is not legal and justice to the globalization of the world
to wait not acted the on going civil war, economic disaster and
political instability of the country.