Rosemary Chepkorir Sang is a Kenyan virologist at the

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, who specialises in the transmission and treatment of

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es. She has a PhD in

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and an MSc in

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and entomology. She has investigated several major outbreaks of arbovirus in East Africa. She has been outspoken on the need for African countries to be part of global policy discussions on climate change. During the

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she expressed concern about the welfare of street children. She has been a member of a number of Expert Committees for the

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, including on International Health Regulation, and Rift Valley fever. She was elected a

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in 2014.

Selected publications

* Crabtree M, Sang R, Miller BR. Kupe Virus, a New Virus in the Family Bunyaviridae, Genus Nairovirus, Kenya. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009;15(2):147-154. * Sergon, Kibet, et al. "Seroprevalence of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection on Lamu Island, Kenya, October 2004." ''The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene'' 78.2 (2008): 333-337. * Sang, Rosemary, et al. "Rift Valley fever virus epidemic in Kenya, 2006/2007: the entomologic investigations." ''The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene'' 83.2 Suppl (2010): 28. * Aubry, Fabien, et al. "Enhanced Zika virus susceptibility of globally invasive Aedes aegypti populations." ''Science'' 370.6519 (2020): 991-996.

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Dr RoseMary Sang on Zika Virus Claims in Kenya
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