Letter to the editor: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern

Marta Giovanetti; Francesco Branda; Fabio Scarpa; Massimo Ciccozzi; Giancarlo Ceccarelli

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Letter to the editor: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern
Marta Giovanetti^1,2 , Francesco Branda³ , Fabio Scarpa⁴ , Massimo Ciccozzi³ , Giancarlo Ceccarelli^5,6,7
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Affiliations: ¹ Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Development and One Health, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy ² Instituto Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Minas Gerais, Brazil ³ Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy ⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy ⁵ Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy ⁶ Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Umberto I, Rome, Italy ⁷ Migrant and Global Health Research Organization (Mi-HeRO), Rome, Italy

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Citation style for this article: Giovanetti Marta, Branda Francesco, Scarpa Fabio, Ciccozzi Massimo, Ceccarelli Giancarlo. Letter to the editor: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(38):pii=2400599. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400599 Received: 12 Sept 2024; Accepted: 17 Sept 2024

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Letter to the editor: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern

Citation style for this article: <a href="/search?value1=Marta+Giovanetti&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Giovanetti Marta</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Francesco+Branda&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Branda Francesco</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Fabio+Scarpa&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Scarpa Fabio</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Massimo+Ciccozzi&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Ciccozzi Massimo</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Giancarlo+Ceccarelli&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Ceccarelli Giancarlo</a>. Letter to the editor: Oropouche virus risk for European travellers to Cuba: an emerging public health concern. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2024;29(38):pii=2400599. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400599" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.38.2400599</a> Received: 12 Sept 2024;   Accepted: 17 Sept 2024

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