Volume 4, Number 2—June 1998
Dispatch
New Vectors of Rift Valley Fever in West Africa
Table 2
Arthropod collections in Kédougou and Barkedji, 1991 to 1996
| Location | Year | Mosquitoes |
Aedes spp. |
Sand flies |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | (Pools) | No. | (Pools) | No. | (Pools) | ||
| Barkedji | 1991 | 34,327 | (1,042) | 11,23 | (338) | 3,370 | (56) |
| 1992 | 42,804 | (1,534) | 5,78 | (352) | 30,547 | (269) | |
| 1993 | 64,810 | (2,023) | 6,056 | (300) | 72,104 | (651) | |
| 1994 | 22,470 | (927) | 8,701 | (365) | 42,730 | (416) | |
| 1995 | 40,952 | (1,413) | 16,124 | (561) | 66,300 | (667) | |
| 1996 | 23,041 | (764) | 16,243 | (453) | 18,934 | (192) | |
| Total | 228,404 | (7,703) | 64,139 | (2,369) | 233,895 | (2,251) | |
| Kédougou | 1991 | 48,377 | (1,264) | 28,579 | (730) | 200 | (2) |
| 1992 | 37,685 | (1,364) | 26,889 | (804) | 1,032 | (9) | |
| 1993 | 71,992 | (2,493) | 31,224 | (1,136) | |||
| 1994 | 48,751 | (1,877) | 23,839 | (956) | |||
| 1995 | 17,756 | (1,014) | 12,590 | (616) | 23,122 | (238) | |
| 1996 | 25,768 | (1,284) | 14,869 | (679) | 11,215 | (115) | |
| Total | 250,329 | (9,296) | 126,659 | (4,914) | 35,569 | (364) | |
| Total | (1991-96) | 478,733 | (16,999) | 190,798 | (7,283) | 269,464 | (2,615) |
