{"id":7337,"date":"2024-08-14T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2024-08-14T06:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:59:42","slug":"oropouche-virus-outbreak-hits-europe-as-first-deaths-confirmed-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/14\/oropouche-virus-outbreak-hits-europe-as-first-deaths-confirmed-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Oropouche Virus Outbreak Hits Europe as First Deaths Confirmed in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/oropouche-virus-outbreak-hits-europe-as-first-deaths-confirmed-in-brazil\">Science Alert<\/a> Health officials have issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/health\/oropouche-virus-symptoms-first-deaths-33395761\">warning to travellers<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/TAB-Oropouche-august-2024.pdf\">19 cases<\/a>\u00a0of the insect-borne illness Oropouche\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\">virus<\/a>\u00a0were confirmed for the first time ever in Europe. Those who had tested positive for the virus had recently returned from holiday in Cuba and Brazil. Parts of South America and Cuba are currently in the midst of an ongoing outbreak of Oropouche virus, with cases many times higher than normal. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(24)00516-4\/fulltext#:%7E:text=On%20July%2025%2C%20two%20deaths,did%20not%20have%20any%20comorbidity.\">first ever deaths<\/a>&nbsp;from Oropouche virus were also confirmed recently in Brazil, adding to concerns about the current outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oropouche virus is an arthropod-borne virus \u2013 meaning it&#8217;s transmitted to humans if they&#8217;re bitten by infected midges or mosquitoes. It&#8217;s the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41541-022-00456-2#:%7E:text=Oropouche%20virus%20%28OROV%29%20is%20an%20arthropod-borne%20orthobunyavirus%20found,arthropod-borne%20viral%20disease%20in%20South%20America%20after%20dengue\">most prevalent<\/a>&nbsp;arthropod-borne viral disease in south America \u2013 after dengue virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5923469\/\">first discovered in 1955<\/a>\u00a0in a forest worker who had contracted it working near the Oropouche river in Trinidad and Tobago. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patua.iec.gov.br\/items\/070c7adf-9766-4210-b206-ec2119e7a9a2\">first large outbreak<\/a>\u00a0was reported in the 1960s in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, where 11,000 cases were recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/oropouche-virus-outbreak-hits-europe-as-first-deaths-confirmed-in-brazil\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Alert Health officials have issued a\u00a0warning to travellers\u00a0after\u00a019 cases\u00a0of the insect-borne illness Oropouche\u00a0virus\u00a0were confirmed for the first time ever in Europe. Those who had tested positive for the virus had recently returned from holiday in Cuba and Brazil. Parts of South America and Cuba are currently in the midst of an ongoing outbreak of [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"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\/7337","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=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7338,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions\/7338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}