{"id":5329,"date":"2023-11-28T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2023-11-28T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:13:49","slug":"new-evidence-of-wider-infections-in-north-america-with-rare-mosquito-borne-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/28\/new-evidence-of-wider-infections-in-north-america-with-rare-mosquito-borne-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence of Wider Infections in North America With \u2018Rare\u2019 Mosquito-Borne Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Emerging-Diseases\/Article\/11-23\/New-Evidence-of-Wider-Infections-in-North-America-With-%E2%80%98Rare%E2%80%99-Mosquito-Borne-Virus\/72192\">IDSE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human infections with a dangerous mosquito-borne disease called Cache Valley virus (CVV) may be more common in the United States and Mexico than previously thought. The disease, discovered decades ago, mainly has been seen as a threat to livestock, with only seven cases ever documented in humans\u2014all in the United States, two fatal and two causing severe neurologic problems\u2014according to a presentation at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, held in Chicago (poster 5255). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CVV is a mosquito-borne virus in the genus Orthobunyavirus, family Peribunyaviridae that has been identified as a teratogen in ruminants causing fetal death and severe malformations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDC scientists have developed a new test for detecting immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies, which are present during infection with the virus and shortly thereafter, using capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. It offers a simpler alternative to other diagnostic methods, which require working with the live virus in biosafety level 2 biocontainment and do not indicate timing of the infection, they said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Emerging-Diseases\/Article\/11-23\/New-Evidence-of-Wider-Infections-in-North-America-With-%E2%80%98Rare%E2%80%99-Mosquito-Borne-Virus\/72192\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"DAXWw n   c l vrK  d EjWxluHTAS\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDSE Human infections with a dangerous mosquito-borne disease called Cache Valley virus (CVV) may be more common in the United States and Mexico than previously thought. The disease, discovered decades ago, mainly has been seen as a threat to livestock, with only seven cases ever documented in humans\u2014all in the United States, two fatal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}