Rift valley fever differential diagnosis

The majority of differential diagnoses for RVF arise from other diseases which are prevalent in travelers and present with fever. All these disease would share a similar history of recent travel to an endemic area, followed by development of fever and body aches. A few of these diseases are listed below :

• Malaria
• Typhoid fever
• Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
• Ebola virus disease
• Dengue
• Yellow fever
• Lassa fever
• Chikungunya
• Q fever
• Zika virus
• Marburg virus disease

References

• https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rift-valley-fever
• https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/rvf/index.html