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Epidemic Oropouche virus disease in northern Brazil.

1981; National Institutes of Health; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

James W. LeDuc, Alfred L. Hoch, F. P. Pinheiro, Travassos da Rosa,

Mosquito-borne diseases and control

In recent years Oropouche (ORO) virus has become one of the most significant causes of arboviral disease in Brazil (1). First isolated in Trinidad in 1955, OR0 virus had initially been considered a clinical novelty of little public health importance (2,3). Within the past several years, however, large epidemics of OR0 virus have been recorded in northern Brazil, where several thousand people have become infected (4-7). While the virus is not known to cause death, morbidity is often substantial, and the resulting loss in productivity may be considerable. In addition, it has been