Advisory Board August 21, 2024
CDC on Friday issued a health advisory warning clinicians to watch for Oropouche virus, a disease spread by small flies and some mosquitos, and advising pregnant people to reconsider nonessential travel to any countries where the virus is circulating.
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What is Oropouche virus?
Oropouche virus was first detected in 1955 in Trinidad and Tobago and is currently endemic in the Amazon basin, according to CDC. Previous outbreaks have occurred in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Panama, and Peru.
Oropouche has also been nicknamed “sloth fever” or “sloth virus” because it has been found in areas where sloths are present. Contact with sloths, however, doesn’t actually transmit the virus. Scientists...
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