Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Outbreak of insect-borne illness in South America linked with fatalities – as first-ever cases confirmed in Europe

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster

Health officials have issued a warning to travellers after 19 cases of the insect-borne illness Oropouche virus were 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,…

Lire l'article complet