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Arabian Peninsula Primed for Rift Valley Fever

Rainfall has created conditions suitable for an outbreak of Rift Valley fever along coastal areas of Saudi Arabia and Yemen.


NASA Earth Observatory image and chart by Jesse Allen and Joshua Stevens, using vegetation anomaly data provided by Jennifer Small and Assaf Anyamba, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center and the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) Global Agricultural Monitoring Project (GLAM) Project. The Rift Valley fever risk mapping and prediction project is supported by Department of Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch/ Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DHA-AFHSC/GEIS). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 2, 2016
Data acquired May 16 - 23, 2016

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS