Table. Results of testing of camels for virus antibodies, by location, age group, and sex of camels examined, North Africa, 2009*.
| Camel characteristic | No. samples | No. positive for antibody |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RVFV | WNV | AHSV | RVFV and WNV | ||
| Origin | |||||
| Tata | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Smara-Laayoune | 58 | 13 | 20 | 0 | 11 |
| Dakhla | 40 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Age group, y | |||||
| <1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1–2 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3–5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 6–10 | 27 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 10 |
| >10 | 23 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Sex | |||||
| M | 71 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 7 |
| F | 29 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 100 | 15 | 29 | 0 | 12 |
*RVFV, Rift Valley fever virus; WNV, West Nile virus; AHSV, African horse sickness virus.