如果不采取更为严格的监视和疾病防治策略，这一病毒会成为高加索地区的地方病并且将最终蔓延到其他区域。

Without a more vigorous surveillance and disease control strategy the virus could become endemic in the Caucasus and could eventually make its way to other regions.

众所周知这一地区流行地方病，存在许多有害健康的问题，包括霍乱、腹泻、疟疾、志贺氏菌病、裂谷热、麻疹、脑膜炎和营养不良。

The region is known to be endemic for many health problems, including cholera, diarrhea, malaria, shigellosis, Rift Valley fever, measles, meningitis and malnutrition.