Oropouche fever cases diagnosed in Italy in two epidemiologically non-related travellers from Cuba, late May to early June 2024

Concetta Castilletti; Antonio Mori; Andrea Matucci; Niccolò Ronzoni; Lukas Van Duffel; Giada Rossini; Pietro Sponga; Maria Luca D’Errico; Paola Rodari; Francesco Cristini; Ralph Huits; Federico Giovanni Gobbi

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Oropouche fever cases diagnosed in Italy in two epidemiologically non-related travellers from Cuba, late May to early June 2024
Concetta Castilletti¹ , Antonio Mori¹ , Andrea Matucci¹ , Niccolò Ronzoni¹ , Lukas Van Duffel² , Giada Rossini³ , Pietro Sponga¹ , Maria Luca D’Errico¹ , Paola Rodari¹ , Francesco Cristini^2,4 , Ralph Huits¹ , Federico Giovanni Gobbi^1,5
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy ² Infectious Diseases Unit, AUSL Romagna, Forlì and Cesena Hospitals, Forlì, Italy ³ Unità Operativa Complessa Microbiologia, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy ⁴ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy ⁵ Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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Citation style for this article: Castilletti Concetta, Mori Antonio, Matucci Andrea, Ronzoni Niccolò, Van Duffel Lukas, Rossini Giada, Sponga Pietro, D’Errico Maria Luca, Rodari Paola, Cristini Francesco, Huits Ralph, Gobbi Federico Giovanni. Oropouche fever cases diagnosed in Italy in two epidemiologically non-related travellers from Cuba, late May to early June 2024. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(26):pii=2400362. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.26.2400362 Received: 13 Jun 2024; Accepted: 27 Jun 2024

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Oropouche fever is caused by Oropouche virus (OROV), transmitted primarily through the bite of infected midges, particularly of the genus Culicoides. The virus is mainly circulating in Central and South America where several countries reported an ongoing outbreak. We report here two imported cases of OROV infection identified in Italy, late May–early June 2024. These cases indicate that in the shadow of a massive dengue outbreak in the Americas, the Oropouche outbreak might be more widespread than previously estimated.

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