Annals of Internal Medicine
Oropouche virus (OROV), a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus in the Simbu serogroup of the genus Orthobunyavirus, is a cause of acute febrile illness in humans. Oropouche virus disease, also referred to as Oropouche fever or sloth fever, was first detected in 1955 in a 24-year-old forest worker in Oropouche de Vega, a village near Sangre Grande on the island of Trinidad. The virus is transmitted to humans primarily by the biting midge Culicoides paraensis , but Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes may also play a role in transmission.
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Annals of Internal Medicine
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https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-24-03049
Abstract
Oropouche virus (OROV), a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus in the Simbu serogroup of the genus Orthobunyavirus, is a cause of acute febrile illness in humans. Oropouche virus disease, also referred to as Oropouche fever or sloth fever, was first detected in 1955 in a 24-year-old forest worker in Oropouche de Vega, a village near Sangre Grande on the island of Trinidad. The virus is transmitted to humans primarily by the biting midge Culicoides paraensis , but Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes may also play a role in transmission.