Now there are new concerns over Oropouche, a virus largely spread by bites from insects called midges (sometimes called no-see-ums in the US). There have been outbreaks of the Oropouche virus in ...

Brazilian scientists said this week that the samples of the Oropouche virus recently detected in South America's largest country could belong to a new variant. According to the latest study on the ...

For the first time, scientists have traced the spread of the Oropouche virus across the Brazilian Amazon, revealing critical ...

Because of the similarities with dengue, Oropouche virus disease is sometimes misdiagnosed. Thus, the number of people who ...

More information: Felipe Gomes Naveca et al, Human outbreaks of a novel reassortant Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, Nature Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03300-3 Journal ...

The CDC has issued interim recommendations to prevent the sexual spread of Oropouche virus, highlighting risks for male ...

Read the full story. —Rhiannon Williams Oropouche virus is spreading. Here’s what we know. There have been plenty of reports of potentially concerning viruses this last year. Covid is still ...

For the first time, scientists have tracked the dispersion of the Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, an ...

The Oropouche virus, which has already caused two deaths in Brazil where it has been endemic for some time, has recorded about 10,000 cases worldwide (including 5 in Italy, all imported).

DEBILITATING 'sloth' fever could be passed on via sex, experts fear, after the virus was detected in sperm. The little-known disease, officially called Oropouche virus, was found in Europe this ...

On July 24, 2024, a 40-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 1, with a first-trimester pregnancy loss at 24 years of age) began to have fever, chills, generalized myalgia, and severe headache at 30 ...