The detection of 21 cases of the insect-borne Oropouche virus disease, also known as "sloth fever," in U.S. travelers returning from Cuba has prompted health officials to issue a warning.

Thanks to epidemiological control and prevention actions as well as to a the weather conditions, the active transmission of ...

Death from Oropouche virus infection is rare. At least 21 Oropouche cases have been reported in the United States in ...

Cases of Oropouche virus disease have been climbing in South ... that pregnant people reconsider nonessential travel to Cuba, which reported its first confirmed case in June.

TASS/. Russian testing kits for insect-borne Oropouche virus (OPOV) have proven their efficacy in Cuba, where a pilot study took place as part of Russian-Cuban cooperation in fighting infectious ...

US mosquito species exhibit minimal competence for transmitting Oropouche virus (OROV), with low infection and transmission ...

The Oropouche virus (OROV) is an emerging arthropod-borne virus primarily found in South America, known for causing Oropouche fever, a febrile illness that shares similarities with dengue fever.

In 2024, 7,236 cases of oropouche fever were recorded ... the rest being in Bolivia, Peru, Cuba, and Colombia. Symptoms of this virus ”include sudden onset of fever, headache, joint stiffness ...

According to the bulletin, the criteria considered to update the regional risk level for Oropouche fever include potential risk to human health. The clinical presentation of the virus in most ...

The oropouche virus was identified in 1955 in the eponymous village in Trinidad and Tobago - an island state in the southern part of the Caribbean. The disease is being transmitted thourgh ...