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The oropouche virus is an emerging infectious agent which causes the illness oropouche fever. [13] This virus is an arbovirus and is transmitted among sloths, marsupials, primates, and birds through mosquito species including Aedes serratus and Culex quinquefasciatus . [ 1 ]
Oropouche is a virus that is native to forested tropical areas. It was first identified in 1955 in a 24-year-old forest worker on the island of Trinidad, and was named for a nearby village and ...
Oropouche virus is endemic to the Amazon basin -- including Bolivia, Colombia and Peru -- and was first discovered in a human in 1955 in a febrile forest worker in a village in Trinidad and Tobago.
The sloth virus, a.k.a. Oropouche or sloth fever, has been detected in Europe. Experts share the main symptoms, along with treatments and prevention. Scientists Raise Concern Over ‘Sloth Virus ...
Oropouche orthobunyavirus (OROV) is one of the most common orthobunyaviruses. When OROV infects humans, it causes a rapid fever illness called Oropouche fever . OROV was originally reported in Trinidad and Tobago in 1955 from the blood sample of a fever patient and from a pool of Coquillettidia venezuelensis mosquitoes. [ 1 ]
It has sometimes been called sloth fever because scientists first investigating the virus found it in a three-toed sloth, and believed sloths were important in its spread between insects and animals. How does Oropouche virus spread? The virus is spread to humans by small biting flies called midges, and by some types of mosquitoes.
An outbreak of Oropouche fever began in December 2023. Over 9,852 infections have been reported, including the first outside the Amazon region to which Oropouche virus is endemic. Although most cases have occurred in Brazil, local transmission has also been reported in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Cuba.
A little-known disease spread by insect bites has turned deadly, and health officials are sounding the alarm.