Tag: oropuche fever

• Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

  Latin America on alert over oropuche spread

  

  With two confirmed deaths caused by oropouche, health authorities in Brazil, Cuba and Colombia are concerned about the recent outbreak of the malady in the region. Other countries do not even keep track of the number of patients who might have contracted the disease and are therefore doing little to nothing to prevent it from spreading, not even after the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) alert last month.