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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 ...
The CDC is sending out a warning about the Oropouche virus — also known as “sloth fever” — as several cases have been ... Hailey Bieber rings in New Year — with a caviar-topped In-N-Out ...
A little-known disease spread by insect bites has turned deadly, and health officials are sounding the alarm.
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 people returning to the U.S. from Cuba have been infected with a virus transmitted by bugs in recent months, federal health officials said Tuesday. They all had Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever. None have died, and there is no evidence that it's spreading in the United States.
The virus causes Oropouche fever, an urban arboviral disease that has since resulted in >30 epidemics during 1960–2009. [4] Between 1961 and 1980, OROV was reported in the northern state of Pará, Brazil, and from 1980 to 2004, OROV had spread to the Amazonas, Amapá, Acre, Rondônia, Tocantins, and Maranhão.
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.
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.