Travelers are encouraged to take the proper precautions. Health experts sound alarm over new 'sloth fever' threat lurking in ...

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health's National Director of Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Durán García, refuted claims on Wednesday regarding the ...

The Oropouche virus, nicknamed “sloth fever,” is emerging as a concern for anyone packing their bags for South and Central America or Caribbean getaways. While most of us worry about more ...

A novel measles-like virus would be highly spreadable and "impossible to control by even the strictest lockdown", making it "a threat far worse than Covid." "It would also be considerably more ...

Jamaican fruit bats support disseminated infection of Ebola but not Marburg virus. The differences in infection dynamics are partially attributable to Marburg’s less efficient entry and impaired ...

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Zika virus can be spread this way, though the viruses are entirely different species. A 42-year-old Italian man who visited Cuba in July 2024 contracted Oropouche fever, with tests revealing he ...

Tomas Emilio Hernández Cruz, 71, a former high-ranking official in the Cuban intelligence service, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Protection and the FBI last week in Broward. The ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases reported the detection of replication-competent Oropouche virus ribonucleic acid (RNA) material in the semen of a febrile man who had recently travelled to Cuba.

The oropouche virus, also known as "sloth fever", is fast spreading in popular vacation hotspots and has been detected in some American patients who have returned from a few select parts of the ...

as cases of the Oropouche virus have been reported in US and Canadian travelers returning from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Peru. While much about the tropical disease remains unknown ...